Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) to criticize or abuse; thus using-up n., criticism or abuse [20C+ use is US campus].

1837		Russellville Advertiser 27 Oct. 3/1: The way they ‘use up’ an Ex-Governor in the Buck Eye State [DA].
1844		Southern Literary Messenger X 720/2: Each and every one of the Magazines in question, gave Mr. ‘Oppodeldoc’ a complete using-up [DA].
1855		P.T. Barnum Life of P.T. Barnum 358: An article in the Tribune, which we know to be by his vigorous pen, by the summary and effectual manner in which the argument is put and his opponent ‘used up’ [DA].
1974		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 6: use – to defeat a person badly, especially in sports.
1981		A. Weller Day of the Dog 58: I could of told ’er that bastard Paris ’ud use ’er up.
1996		Eble Sl. and Sociability 36: Slang words formed by clipping sounds from the beginning of the word are [...] the verb use, from abuse.

2. (US prison) to submit someone to anal intercourse.

1912

A. Berkman Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 319: He lied about me like hell: he told fellows he used me. Christ, my mother might hear about it!