… brutes who beat up their victims without compunction … J. H. Plumb b : to walk on : tread beat the pavement looking for work c : to strike directly against forcefully and repeatedly : dash against waves beating the shore beat the door with her fists d : to flap or th...
Slang: Vulgar.to masturbate. to force back; compel to withdraw: They beat back the attackers. to search through; scour: After beating about for several hours, he turned up the missing papers. Nautical.to tack into the wind. Alsobeat up on.to strike repeatedly so as to cause painful injur...
What is the meaning of beat yourself up? phrasal verb. beat yourself up (about/over something) (North American English also beat up on yourself (about/over something)) (informal) to blame yourself too much for something.Similar questions 25In yellowstone who beat up beth? 31Whats a be...
"Beat" is old carny slang. According to Beat Movement legend (and it is a movement with a deep inventory of legend), Ginsberg and Kerouac picked it up from a character named Herbert Huncke, a gay street hustler and drug addict from Chicago who began hanging around Times Square in 1939 (...
beat it (slang)(usually used in orders) to go away immediately This is private land, so beat it! beat a path to somebody's doorif a lot of people beat a path to someone's door, they are all interested in something that person has to sell, or can do or tell them Top theatrical ...
bhau-"to strike" (see batter (v.)). Of the heart, c. 1200, from notion of it striking against the breast. Meaning "to overcome in a contest" is from 1610s (the source of the sense of "legally avoid, escape" inbeat the charges, etc., attested from c. 1920 in underworld slang...
2.tv.to drive oneself hard (to accomplish something).I beat my brains out all day to clean this house, and you come in and track up the carpet! See also:beat,brain,out McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies,...
spay - A shortening of a French word espeer, meaning "cut with a sword." gladiator, gladiate - The main Latin word for sword was gladius, from which came gladiator; gladiate is an adjective meaning sword-shaped. Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
(slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face. Lash A quick blow with a whip Beat A beatnik. Lash Beat severely with a whip or rod; The teacher often flogged the students The children were severely trounced Beat (transitive) To hit; to strike. As soon as she heard that her father...
assegai or assagai, backsword, battle-axe, bayonet, bill, bowie knife, broadsword, claymore, cutlass, dagger, dirk, épée, falchion, foil, halberd, hatchet, jackknife, jerid, jereed, or jerreed, knife or (slang) chiv, kris, kukri, machete, parang, partisan, pike, poleaxe, poniard, ra...