duff sb up
UK informal— phrasal verb with duff uk/dʌf/us/dʌf/verb [ T ] Australian English informal
to hit someone repeatedly:
Two of the robbers threatened to duff the witness up if he went to the police.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- deck
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pasting
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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