beater-upper
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Yesterday he was doing just that by submitting to a thorough beating up at the hands of Miss Lupe Velez, who's probably the best beater-upper of either sex in Hollywood."
- "These are the muggers and beater-uppers, and car thieves and burglars and rapists, assaulters, and so on."
- "[…] and, in the best sporting tradition, the Gordon player gratefully helped his beater-upper back to his feet."