verb

• to beat someone until they enter the fetal position (their body forming a tight ball.)

  If that guy keeps looking at me he's gonna get balled up.

  by Brian U., Mt Pleasant, PA, USA, Dec 12 1999.

verb

• to hit or cause bodily injury.

  If you don't shut up, I'm going to bang you out.

  by Anonymous, MD, USA, Feb 06 1998.

noun

• acronym of "Biggest Beating Ever," which can refer to "beating" as in a severe physical attack, or a severe defeat e.g. in a competitive sport.

  He just applied the BBE on that game.

  by Steve Pine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA, Jan 13 1999.

noun

• a fight or severe beating. One typically "gives" or "puts" a beat down. See "put the beat down."

  You have just been scheduled for a beat down.

  There's going to be a beat down if he doesn't stop that.

  by Jonathan L., Minneapolis, MN, USA, Mar 02 1999.

verb

• to hit, attack.

  The bouncers busted on some drunk guy last night.

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001.

verb

• to cause a crowd to disperse; BREAK UP. While the police "bust up" a fight, they would typically "bust" a party, rave, etc.

  The cops busted up the fight.

  by D.J. Pabst, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, Dec 19 1997.

• to attack; BEAT UP.

  John is going to bust Joe up.

  by Zack T., Dec 22 1998.

noun

• one who messes up; SCREWS UP.

  He got fired because he was a fuck-up.

  by Anonymous, Apr 24 1999.

• a mistake. Hyphenated.

  by WalterGR, Aug 26 2009.

verb

• to severely injure (a person) or damage (a thing.)

  He really fucked that guy up!

  Thanks for fucking up my car.

  by Anonymous, Apr 24 1999.

• to mess up; SCREW UP.

  You really fucked up this job.

  by Anonymous, Apr 24 1999.

adjective

• to be hit, punched, attacked.

  He got banked on.

  by Michael Cassell, Sacramento, CA, USA, Apr 25 1997.

verb

• to torture terribly, in the medieval style.

  I'm going to get medieval on his ass!

  by Will Carpenter, Tallulah, LA, USA, Jun 11 1997.

origin

• Originated or at least popularized by the movie Pulp Fiction.

  by Emily M., UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, Jan 13 1998.

verb

• to perpetrate acts of premeditated violence.

  by Michael Venables, USA, Oct 01 2001.

• to go insane. Notes: the term originated from the cases of United States Postal Service employees who, due to job stress or other traumatic influence, have murdered coworkers on the job, usually with a firearm. Only later did the definition open up to general insanity, but the term still has connotations of violence.

  by Michael Venables, USA, Oct 01 2001.

verb

• to break or ruin.

  You really jacked his car up!

  by Karl Bartolome, Oct 27 1997.

• to stab or attack.

  He got into a fight and got all jacked up.

  by Karl Bartolome, Oct 27 1997.

verb

• to engage in intimate physical contact, usually intercourse. Also jump (one's) bones.

  I want to jump him.

  by Jackie Hasa, Moraga, CA, USA, Apr 26 1998.

• to beat someone up via a sudden surprise attack, usually as a group.

  They jumped him in the subway and stole his wallet.

  by Jackie Hasa, Moraga, CA, USA, Apr 26 1998.

verb

• to be victorious. Also kick ass.

  Our football team kicked ass this weekend!

  Our football team kicked their ass this weekend!

  by WalterGR, Oct 01 2001.

• to injure severely.

  He kicked that guy's ass in a fight this weekend.

  by WalterGR, Oct 01 2001.

verb

• to physically attack someone.

  Keep talking shit and I'm going to make you dust your back off.

  by D L., Los Angeles, CA, USA, Nov 14 1997.

verb

• to beat someone up.

  If he screws with me again, I'm gonna open a can of whoop ass on him.

  by Beth, Cape Neddick, ME, USA, Apr 15 1999.

adjective

• violently insane, homicidal.

  Stay away from him! He's postal!

  by Scott M., Draper, UT, USA, Nov 18 2005.

notes

• See also go postal.

  by Michael Venables, USA, Oct 01 2001.

verb

• to beat someone up, to attack. Also give a beat down.

  If you don't get your act together, I'll have to put the beat down.

  If you don't get your act together, I'll have to give you a beat down.

  by Roni, San Jose, CA, USA, Mar 15 1998.

intransitive verb

• to attack, beat up.

  I'm going to go rip that guy a new asshole.

  by Hugou, Brest, France, Mar 05 1998.

• to reprimand.

  John really screwed up on this new account. You better go rip him a new asshole.

  by Queen Latrine, Whidbey Island, USA, Jul 02 2007.

• to argue with, "have words with," set the record straight, get the better of, etc.

  I really ripped him a new asshole!

  by Queen Latrine, Whidbey Island, USA, Jul 02 2007.

verb

• to beat with physical violence.

  Frank got smacked down by that 350 pound bouncer.

  by Alford H., Fayetteville, NC, USA, Dec 18 1999.