beat up

As a young researcher, he once parked a beat-up car in a middle-class suburban neighborhood of Palo Alto, and during three days of observation, noticed that the car was left untouched.

She takes us to her office, closes the door, and orders us to sit on her beat-up sofa as she goes over to her mini fridge.

Woody Harrelson is here in a beat-up cowboy hat recalling the time he and Buffett smoked a joint on the roof of the Vatican.

“Inside of every old, beat-up body on the ski slope is a 16-year-old kid,” said Phillips, who skis with hearing aids and a knee brace.

“I don’t remember how a beat-up box got in the garage,” he said.