beat up on

beat up on someone

to batter someone, usually physically. Lefty beat up on Max and made a mess of him. Don't beat up on me, you bully!

1. To attack physically.

2. To criticize or scold harshly.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Eilidh	-	Scottish
Silvester	sil-VES-tər (English)	Dutch, English, Slovene, Slovak, German, Late Roman
Nasira	-	Arabic
Ender	-	Turkish
Ade (2)	-	Frisian
Thomas	TAHM-əs (English), TOM-əs (English), to-MAH (French), TO-mahs (German, Dutch), tho-MAHS (Greek)	English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Greek, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblica