duff someone up

duff someone up
Brit. beat someone up.
duff

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  • Someone's Watching over Me — Single infobox Name = Someone s Watching over Me Artist = Hilary Duff from Album = Hilary Duff and the film Raise Your Voice B side = My Generation Released = Start date|2005|2|21 Format = CD single Recorded = Genre = Pop rock, balladry Length =… …   Wikipedia

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  • duff up — PHRASAL VERB To duff someone up means to hit them many times and injure them. [BRIT, INFORMAL] [V P n (not pron)] She began telling us about some fight on a bus in which our kids had duffed up the bus conductor. [Also V n P] Syn: beat up …   English dictionary

  • Someone's Watching Over Me — Sencillo por Hilary Duff del Álbum Hilary Duff Lanzado 26 de febrero de 2005 Formato CD single Grabación 2004 Género …   Wikipedia Español

  • Duff McKagan — McKagan in 2006 Background information Birth name Michael Andrew McKagan Also known as Duff …   Wikipedia

  • duff up — or duff over To beat up • • • Main Entry: ↑duff * * * ˌduff ˈup [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they duff up he/she/it …   Useful english dictionary

  • Duff — This unusual name, with the variants spellings Dow, Dove and Dew, is of Scottish (and sometimes Irish) Gaelic origin, and is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic word dubh , dark, black, in Old Gaelic spelt as dub . This word was frequently used as… …   Surnames reference

  • duff — duff1 [dʌf] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: dough] AmE informal the part of your body that you sit on = ↑bottom ▪ Get off your duff (=stop sitting or stop being lazy) and help me! duff 2 duff2 adj BrE informal [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Perhaps from… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • duff — 1 noun 1 up the duff slang pregnant (=with a baby growing inside you) 2 (U) a type of cake: plum duff 2 adjective BrE informal useless and broken 3 verb duff sb up also duff sb in phrasal verb (T) BrE slang to fight someone and injure them: Let s …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • duff — duff1 [ dʌf ] noun count 1. ) AMERICAN INFORMAL someone s BOTTOM 2. ) BRITISH a type of cake up the duff IMPOLITE PREGNANT duff duff 2 [ dʌf ] adjective BRITISH useless, broken, or poor in quality …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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