Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. dead, killed in battle; murdered.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Used up, killed: a military saying, originating from a message sent by the late General Guise, on the expedition at Carthagena, where he desired the commander in chief to order him some more grenadiers, for those he had were all used up.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 93: used up Killed; murdered.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 91: Used Up [...] murdered.

2. exhausted, whether of a person, a vehicle, a place.

1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 187: Used-up one who, by his labours or his irregularities, is no longer the active clever person he was wont to be.
1832		Spirit of the Times (NY) 7 Apr. 2/4: Connecticut is ‘sawed off’ and ‘used up’.
1836		D. Crockett Exploits and Adventures (1934) 241: Seeing the poor fellow completely used up, I carried him to bed.
1843		Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 4 Feb. n.p.: The ‘Flash’ people are pulverized — used up — down on their luck.
1848		Dickens Dombey And Son (1970) 188: An old campaigner, sir, said the Major, a smoke-dried, sun-burnt, used-up, invalided old dog of a Major, sir.
1859		G.A. Sala Gaslight and Daylight 41: Coming home very satiated and sea-sick from foreign parts, tired, jaded, used-up.
1868		H.L. Williams Steel Safe 26: The cashier took him off on a spree one time and brought him home used up.
1871		Gympie Times (Qld) 11 jan. 3/6: Our young friend never scolds, but ‘blows up;’ never pays, but ‘stumps up;’ never finds it difficult to pay, but is ‘hard up;’ never feels fatigued, but is ‘used -up’.
1874		‘English Sl.’ in Eve. Telegram (N.Y.) 9 Dec. 1/5: Let us present a few specimens:– [...] ‘Used up.’.
1881		Loves of Venus 38: ‘Look at your husband, he’s quite used up [...] no doubt you took a lot out of him before you got up’.
1887		G. Devol Forty Years a Gambler 48: To tell you the truth, I was pretty well used up, but I staid in my room till I got all right again.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 91: Used Up, worn out.
1899		Boy’s Own Paper 25 Feb. 346: I’m about used up.
1907		C. M’Govern By Bolo and Krag 50: I was so gall-fired used up I couldn’t swear at the hombres.
1930		K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 34: Thought you was looking a bit used up with the heat, Mum.
1942		D.X. Manners ‘Fifty-Grand Funeral’ in Ten Detective Aces Dec. 🌐 You are used up. Finished. No good.
1957		G. Kersh Fowlers End (2001) 131: I’m just about used up. Where was it you said your bed was?
1969		N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 186: After a few months, the Adlib was all used up and they moved to somewhere new.
1972		D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 203: It was stronger than a used-up high school date is all it was.
2001		N. Barlay Hooky Gear 162: Brawn an brain need raw prawn for dem game. An here I am all use up an raw like a fuckin prawn in a game.

3. beaten up.

1865

Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 12/1: A fight ensured in which Legs got dreadfully used up.

4. bankrupt.

1859, 1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.

5. broken-hearted.

1859, 1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.