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beat
verb- to cheat, to swindle, to steal US, 1849
- It was early one morning / the temperature read about twenty below / I was on my way to the Union Station to beat some sucker for his dough. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 66, 1964
- I didn’t want to put my money in his hand and then get beat for it[.] — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 28, 1966
- I knew the cab driver had beat me for my bread but there was no use crying, it was gone. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 24, 1967
- He beat me for two-and-a-half points of gross, that’s what he did! — Terry Southern, Blue Movie, p. 72, 1970
- I also looked for righteous spots where I could beat a car. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, 1973
- He’s still going around checking to see if they beat him out of anything. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 52, 1975
- They also beat me for a ten dollar bill. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 177, 1980
- We was over in New York and we got beat on some dope. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 461, 1992
- to defy someone’s understanding UK, 1882
- It beats me why only an Olympic Games can rejuvenate school sports, fitness, slums, London transport etcetera. — The Guardian, 28 May 2004
▶ beat about the bush; beat around the bush- (of a female) to masturbate UK
Wordplay on “beat” (used in many terms of male masturbation) - and BUSH
- Forgive me. I probably don’t have time to beat about your bush. — Terry Victor, Return of the Menu Monster, 1991
- Another way to say “the girl is masturbating” [...] Beating around the bush[.] — Erica Orloff and JoAnn Baker, Dirty Little Secrets, p. 67, 2001
- to avoid coming to the point of a discussion UK, 1659
A term that has its origin in the hunting of birds. - I gave it to him straight. No fucking beating about the bush. — Dean Cavanagh, Mile High Meltdown (Disco Biscuits), p. 207, 1996
▶ beat cheeks
to leave US
Some degree of haste is implicit in the phrase.- The two Egrets still on their feet exchanged glances, decided it wasn’t worth it, and beat cheeks down the sidewalk and through the crowd. — George Martin, Joker’s Wild, p. 282, 1987
- Since I didn’t look forward to riding at night in unfamiliar territory my intention was to breeze through Gothenburg and get on the E4 and beat cheeks. — rec.motorcycles, 19 December 1992
- We chance dinner at Senor Sushi (right across from Domino’s Pizza) and find a cheap hotel for the night. And beat cheeks early the next morning. — Andy Teetzel, rec.backcountry, 19 March 1992
▶ beat feet
to leave US, 1944- So he snags his blunderbuss, calls his bonecruncher, blows the barracks and beats feet for the timber. — Haenigsen, Jive’s Like That, 1947
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 78, 1968
- — Gregory Newbold, The Big Huey, p. 244, 1982
- Well, shit, fella, you might as well keep fuckin’ beatin’ feet, as they say. — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 64, 1986
- “I’ll be glad when all these sailboat tourists beat feet,” Fortney said. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 178, 1996
- “Now beat feet. I got to finish my piss.” — James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending, p. 153, 2006
▶ beat hollow
to outdo someone utterly and completely BARBADOS- — Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p. 88, 1996
▶ beat it- to leave quickly US, 1878
- I sneaked into the house and stole my sister’s Hudson-seal fur coat out of the closet, then I beat it down to a whorehouse and sold it to a madam for $150. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 54, 1946
- He forgot all about the money, and beat it. — Jim Thompson, The Kill-Off, p. 132, 1957
- (of a male) to masturbate US
- The plane started spinning around, going out of control. So my cousin decides it’s all over, and he whips it out and starts beating it right there. — Mallrats, 1995
▶ beat off with a stick
to get more than enough sexual offers AUSTRALIA- Chances of pulling a root: James Bond has to beat them off with a shitty stick, so we reckon there’ll be no worries in that department. — People, p. 14, 5 July 1999
▶ beat the band
to surpass everything US, 1897
▶ beat the board
in poker, to hold the best hand showing US- — Irwin Steig, Common Sense in Poker, p. 181, 1963
▶ beat the bushes- in horse racing, to race a horse in minor circuits, where the horse can be a big fish in a little pond US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 13, 1951
- to drive in the lead position of a group of trucks travelling together on a motorway US
- — “Slingo”, The Official CB Slang Dictionary Handbook, p. 6, 1976
▶ beat the clock- to finish a task before the prescribed time UK, 1961
In the UK orginally military, perhaps from an American parlour game. From the late 1950s–60s, it was used as the title of a gameshow segment in the television variety programme Sunday Night at the London Palladium. - to return alive from an SAS mission UK
- The names of those [SAS men] killed in action are inscribed on the clock tower at the SAS barracks in Hereford. [They] talk of coming back alive from a particular mission as “beating the clock”. — Harper & Queens, November 1980
▶ beat the cotton
to soak and then pound used cottons, used to strain drug doses, in an attempt to leach out enough heroin for another dose US- — Geoffrey Froner, Digging for Diamonds, p. 8, 1989
▶ beat the Dutch
to astonish or frustrate someone US, 1775- — Frederic G. Cassidy, Dictionary of American Regional English, p. 192, 1985
▶ beat the eightball
to use heroin US- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 31, 1971
▶ beat the favorite
in horse racing, to place a small bet on a horse with long odds to win rather than betting on the horse favoured to win US- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 13, 1951
▶ beat the gun
(of an engaged couple) to have sex, especially if the fiancée falls pregnant AUSTRALIA, 1984
The sporting imagery of being under starter’s orders.▶ beat the man
to sleep US
Prison usage suggesting that in sleep one escapes domination by prison authorities.- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 197, 1990
▶ beat the priest and take his gown; beat the priest
to do that which you should not do in an open, notorious and brazen fashion GRENADA, 1978- — Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p. 88, 1996
▶ beat the pup
(of a male) to masturbate US- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 25, 1950
▶ beat the rap
to withstand harsh interrogation UK- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 26, 1996
▶ beat the snot out of
to thrash someone soundly, to beat someone up US- [W]e will get together and beat the snot out of that guy over there. — Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book, p. 230, 1989
▶ beat the starter
(of an engaged couple) to have sex, especially if the fiancée falls pregnant UK, 1984
Sporting imagery, racing ahead while still under starter’s orders.▶ beat the tab; beat the check
to leave a restaurant or hotel without paying your check US- He’d check into the best New York hotels under a phoney name so he could beat the tab. — Vincent Teresa, My Life in the Mafia, p. 119, 1973
- I was proudest of the chuckles we got from beating checks in restaurants. — Gary Mayer, Bookie, p. 81, 1974
▶ beat the till
to grab money from a cash register when the store clerk is not watching US- I walked into a supermarket and watched a girl beatin’ the till. She had turned the cashier around. — Harry King, Box Man, p. 71, 1972
▶ beat your baloney
(of a male) to masturbate US- One maverick among those polled got his kicks beating his baloney during TV commercials. — Screw, 10 November 1969
▶ beat your bishop
(of a male) to masturbate US, 1916- In fact you can sit here and rest or beat your bishop while I go ramblin around there, I like to ramble by myself. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 53, 1958
▶ beat your chops; beat up your chops
to talk US- Herbie was beating up his chops about Lend-Lease to Russian when I walked up. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 112, 1945
- When I stood around outside the Pekin, beating up my chops with Big Buster, and he put his arm around my shoulder in a friendly way[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 48, 1946
- — Sherman Louis Sergel, The Language of Show Biz, p. 19, 1973
▶ beat your face
to perform push-ups US- — Seattle Times, p. A9, 12 April 1998
▶ beat your gums; beat up your gums
to talk without purpose or without effect US, 1945- “Never mind, I am who I am. Just don’t beat up your gums at me,” I said, throwing him a newly acquired phrase. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 269, 1947
- On the way to Biff’s, Betsy, dressed in a knocked-out strapless, bloobers more out than in, kept beating her gums. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 157, 1954
▶ beat your meat; beat the meat
(of a male) to masturbate US, 1936- Suppose you just sit down and beat your meat if you’re getting anxious. — Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, p. 124, 1948
- The young man held his fist up and agitated it meaningfully, yet with such a disinterested air that his gesture–ordinarily such a smutty one–seemed quite abstract and inoffensive. “You know–onanism–‘beating your meat,’” he explained. — Terry Southern, Candy, p. 74, 1958
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 261, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- I have affairs, Arn, and I beat my meat. — Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, p. 197, 1969
- Beating your meat is not a substitute for fucking. — Screw, p. 11, 1 September 1969
- You talking like I lost something real sweet / But I got more kick out of beating my meat. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 143, 1976
- I’m beating my meat with one hand and writing with the other. — Anka Radakovich, The Wild Girls Club, p. 223, 1994
- [S]tanding over the toilet bowl and beating my meat. — Howard Stern, Miss America, p. 154, 1995
- I think Leroy thinks about fay chicks too, when he beats his meat. — Clarence Major, All-Night Visitors, p. 25, 1998
- You’ve basically been in the bushes beating your meat your whole life. — The Guru, 2002
▶ beat yourself up
to be harshly self-critical, to struggle with your conscience UK- Greg had been beating himself up about it more than he thought he would. — Colin Butts, Is Harry Still on the Boat?, p. 243, 2003
▶ can’t beat it in the Navy
used for expressing admiration of a boat-handling job CANADA
Among Canadian east coast fishermen, with the tradition of navy techniques very strong, this term expresses high praise.- You couldn’t have beaten it in the Navy. He did a neat job of manoeuvering and docking the boat. — Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World, 1908
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