beat-up
Adjective
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Adjective
beat-up
- (chiefly, of an object, informal) Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair
beat-up (plural beat-ups)
- (Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media.
- 2009, Natasha Robinson, [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/james-packer-book-outrage-a-beat-up-says-paul-barry/story-e6frg90f-1225785791910| 'James Packer book outrage a beat-up, says Paul Barry'], The Australian ↗, [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business| Business section]
- “It has been suggested that this is a vicious book, a poisonous book, that it's a disgrace to have written it,” Mr Barry said at today's book launch. “That's a total beat-up."
- 2009, Michael Cook, [http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:DF1npakYzw8J:www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/8701/+a+beat-up&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk| 'Is Britain’s stem cell crisis a beat-up?'], BioEdge ↗
- Few areas of science journalism are more susceptible to frothy beat-ups than stem cell research.
- 2009, Natasha Robinson, [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/james-packer-book-outrage-a-beat-up-says-paul-barry/story-e6frg90f-1225785791910| 'James Packer book outrage a beat-up, says Paul Barry'], The Australian ↗, [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business| Business section]
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