A fork of Rural Dictionary
So drunk you think that doing things that are incredibly bad for you are also incredibly funny. So drunk you can't do anything but lay around.
"Let's get tore up and pass out in the hot sun!"
Extremely ugly, busted, broke down, and haggard. "Straight tore up" is the superlative form.
As Kelly fell out of the ugly tree and hit successive branches on the way down, she went from nothing to write home about to ugly to broke down to busted to straight TORE UP!
Used as a DESCRIPTION the TORE in "tore up" replaces negative words like "fucked," "beat," and "messed" in a phrase of dissatisfation. Also used as an ACTION: Succeeding beyond expectation.
"His grill is tore up!" "Last night I tore it up! She'll be walkin' funny for at least a week!"
Past tense of the infinitive "to tear" paired with preposition "up"; combined to form idiom to describe destruction of either material or intangible condition.
Yo 'sup! I tore up a check I wrote when I realized I had written it for an amount inconsistent with the value of my purchase, mothafucka! It tore up my heart to have wasted the resource! Word!
Past Participle of: to tare Completed something with remarkable achievement. Used in conjunction with a depiction of tearing a piece of paper while saying the phrase.
Yo nigga...I TORE UP dat midterm. *snaps fingers erratically*