Talk:bang up

I'm pretty sure that "banged up" is commonly used to mean "locked up by the police" in England but not in the United States. (I don't know whether the UK English meaning is in general use in other English-speaking countries.) If someone can substantiate these missing details, it would be helpful to add them to the main entry.

Also -- in the US at least -- people who are "locked up by the police" are put in lock-up or jail, not prison. (Lock-up is for immediate post-arrest, pre-arraignment processing; jail is for pre-trial detention and short sentences; prison is for long post-conviction sentences.) If the same distinction obtains in the UK, and if it can be substantiated that "banged up" in fact means only "locked up by the police" and not "sent to prison," "prison" should be changed to "lock-up" or "jail" (or maybe "gaol"!) in the definition.

PCMartinSeattle 22:40, 4 January 2012 (UTC)