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ALL meanings of beat-out

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  • verb with object beat-out to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to dash against: rain beating the trees. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to flutter, flap, or rotate in or against: beating the air with its wings. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to sound, as on a drum: beating a steady rhythm; to beat a tattoo. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to stir vigorously: Beat the egg whites well. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to break, forge, or make by blows: to beat their swords into plowshares. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to produce (an attitude, idea, habit, etc.) by repeated efforts: I'll beat some sense into him. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to make (a path) by repeated treading. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to strike (a person or animal) repeatedly and injuriously: Some of the hoodlums beat their victims viciously before robbing them. 1
  • verb with object beat-out Music. to mark (time) by strokes, as with the hand or a metronome. 1
  • verb with object beat-out Hunting. to scour (the forest, grass, or brush), and sometimes make noise, in order to rouse game. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to overcome in a contest; defeat. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to win over in a race: We beat the English challenger to Bermuda. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to be superior to: Making reservations beats waiting in line. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to be incomprehensible to; baffle: It beats me how he got the job. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to defeat or frustrate (a person), as a problem to be solved: It beats me how to get her to understand. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to mitigate or offset the effects of: beating the hot weather; trying to beat the sudden decrease in land values. 1
  • verb with object beat-out Slang. to swindle; cheat (often followed by out): He beat him out of hundreds of dollars on that deal. 1
  • verb with object beat-out to escape or avoid (blame or punishment). 1
  • verb with object beat-out Textiles. to strike (the loose pick) into its proper place in the woven cloth by beating the loosely deposited filling yarn with the reed. 1
  • verb without object beat-out to strike repeated blows; pound. 1
  • verb without object beat-out to throb or pulsate: His heart began to beat faster. 1
  • verb without object beat-out to dash; strike (usually followed by against or on): rain beating against the windows. 1
  • verb without object beat-out to resound under blows, as a drum. 1
  • verb without object beat-out to achieve victory in a contest; win: Which team do you think will beat? 1
  • verb without object beat-out to play, as on a drum. 1
  • verb without object beat-out to scour cover for game. 1
  • verb without object beat-out Physics. to make a beat or beats. 1
  • verb without object beat-out (of a cooking ingredient) to foam or stiffen as a result of beating or whipping: This cream won't beat. 1
  • verb without object beat-out Nautical. to tack to windward by sailing close-hauled. 1
  • noun beat-out a stroke or blow. 1
  • noun beat-out the sound made by one or more such blows: the beat of drums. 1
  • noun beat-out a throb or pulsation: a pulse of 60 beats per minute. 1
  • noun beat-out the ticking sound made by a clock or watch escapement. 1
  • noun beat-out one's assigned or regular path or habitual round: a policeman's beat. 1
  • noun beat-out Music. the audible, visual, or mental marking of the metrical divisions of music. a stroke of the hand, baton, etc., marking the time division or an accent for music during performance. 1
  • noun beat-out Theater. a momentary time unit imagined by an actor in timing actions: Wait four beats and then pick up the phone. 1
  • noun beat-out Prosody. the accent stress, or ictus, in a foot or rhythmical unit of poetry. 1
  • noun beat-out Physics. a pulsation caused by the coincidence of the amplitudes of two oscillations of unequal frequencies, having a frequency equal to the difference between the frequencies of the two oscillations. 1
  • noun beat-out Journalism. the reporting of a piece of news in advance, especially before it is reported by a rival or rivals. Compare exclusive (def 13), scoop (def 9). Also called newsbeat, run. the particular news source or activity that a reporter is responsible for covering. 1
  • noun beat-out a subdivision of a county, as in Mississippi. 1
  • noun beat-out (often initial capital letter) Informal. beatnik. 1
  • adjective beat-out Informal. exhausted; worn out. 1
  • adjective beat-out (often initial capital letter) of or characteristic of members of the Beat Generation or beatniks. 1
  • idioms beat-out beat all, Informal. to surpass anything of a similar nature, especially in an astonishing or outrageous way: The way he came in here and ordered us around beats all! 1
  • idioms beat-out beat a retreat. retreat (def 12). 1
  • idioms beat-out beat around / about the bush. bush1 (def 16). 1
  • idioms beat-out beat it, Informal. to depart; go away: He was pestering me, so I told him to beat it. 1
  • idioms beat-out beat the air / wind, to make repeated futile attempts. 1
  • idioms beat-out beat the rap. rap1 (def 17). 1
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