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Beats

//biːts// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the female given names Beatrice or Beatrix.
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of beat form-of, plural
  2. 2
    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) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of beat form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Etymology

Clipping of Beatrice or Beatrix + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

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