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Meaning:
Adjective:
- exhausted
- gay slang fabulous
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Noun:
- A beatnik.
- A pause with the camera focused on one shot, often a characters face (often used in screenplays/teleplays).
- A pulsation or throb.
- 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.
- In newspapering, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- law enforcement The route of a patrol by a guard or officer as in ''walk the beat''.
- rfv-sense A small part of a dramatic play.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
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Verb:
- intransitive|nautical To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (impersonal): ''It beats X Y'' = ''X cannot understand Y'', where Y is an indirect question.
- To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. ''Compare whip.''
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel someone in a particular, competitive event.
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