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noun

• A stroke; a blow.

• A pulsation or throb.

  Example: a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse

• A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.

• A rhythm.

• The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

• (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.

• The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

• (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially

• An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.

• That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

  Example: the beat of him

• A precinct.

• A place of habitual or frequent resort.

• A low cheat or swindler.

  Example: a dead beat

• The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.

• The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

• A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

verb

• To hit; strike

  Example: As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.

• To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

  Example: He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.

• To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

• To move with pulsation or throbbing.

• To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.

  Example: I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.

• To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

• To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.

• To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.

  Example: Beat the eggs and whip the cream.

• (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price

  Example: He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.

• To indicate by beating or drumming.

  Example: to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters

• To tread, as a path.

• To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

• To be in agitation or doubt.

• To make a sound when struck.

  Example: The drums beat.

• To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

  Example: The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

• To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.

• To arrive at a place before someone.

  Example: He beat me there.

• To have sexual intercourse.

  Example: Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.

• To rob.

  Example: He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.

adjective

• Exhausted

  Example: After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.

• Dilapidated, beat up

  Example: Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.

• Fabulous

  Example: Her makeup was beat!

• Boring

• (of a person) ugly

noun

• A beatnik.