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A United States youth subculture of the 1950s Rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress For communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism Favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) |
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Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship We beat the competition Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game |
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Give a beating to Subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night The teacher used to beat the students |
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Hit repeatedly Beat on the door Beat the table with his shoe |
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Move rhythmically Her heart was beating fast |
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Shape by beating Beat swords into ploughshares |
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Make a rhythmic sound Rain drummed against the windshield The drums beat all night |
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Glare or strike with great intensity The sun was beating down on us |
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Move with a thrashing motion The bird flapped its wings The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky |
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Sail with much tacking or with difficulty The boat beat in the strong wind |
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Stir vigorously Beat the egg whites Beat the cream |
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Strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music Beat one's breast Beat one's foot rhythmically |
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Be superior Reading beats watching television This sure beats work! |
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Avoid paying Beat the subway fare |
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Make a sound like a clock or a timer The clocks were ticking The grandfather clock beat midnight |
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Move with a flapping motion The bird's wings were flapping |
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Indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks Beat the rhythm |
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Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion The city pulsated with music and excitement |
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Make by pounding or trampling Beat a path through the forest |
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Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly Beat the drum |
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Strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting |
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Beat through cleverness and wit I beat the traffic She outfoxed her competitors |
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Be a mystery or bewildering to This beats me! Got me--I don't know the answer! A vexing problem This question really stuck me |
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Wear out completely This kind of work exhausts me I'm beat He was all washed up after the exam |
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Very tired Was all in at the end of the day So beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere Bushed after all that exercise I'm dead after that long trip |
| noun | beat generation, beatniks, youth subculture
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| noun | beat, round, path, route, itinerary |
| noun | pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat, periodic event, recurrent event
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| noun | rhythm, beat, musical rhythm, musical time
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| noun | beat, oscillation, vibration |
| noun | beatnik, beat, nonconformist, recusant |
| noun | beat, sound |
| noun | meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence, poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody |
| noun | beat, pace, rate |
| noun | beat, stroke |
| noun | beat, sailing |