duff up

verb

slang, (tr, adverb) to beat or thrash (a person) severely

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His career saw him in and out of jail, constantly being sued, refusing to pay alimony, impregnating and abandoning a string of domestic servants, conspiring to duff up random clergymen, and at one point abducting a teenage girl and keeping her as a sex slave.*