beat up

A line of cars — BMWs, Nissans, shiny SUVs, beat-up sedans — wrapped around to Lake, even though the giveaway wouldn’t start for another 15 minutes.

There are clashes and there is closure, but mostly there’s just Vera, bustling around in that ratty coat and beat-up car, to solve the case, save the day and aid the afflicted.

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.