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The word "beat" can be used as verb, noun, adjective and adjective.

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Derived Terms

Balearic beat Beatles Bo Diddley beat D-beat Eskibeat Eurobeat Merseybeat abeat afrobeat afterbeat back beat backbeat bad beat bad to beat barber beats be still my beating heart beat Banaghan beat Jack out of doors beat a dead horse beat a hasty retreat beat a retreat beat about beat about the bush beat all beat around the bush beat as one beat back beat cop beat down beat everything beat feet beat for nothing beat frequency oscillator beat hollow beat into beat into a cocked hat beat into fits beat into shape beat it beat like a jungle drum beat my neighbour out of doors beat off beat off with a stick beat on beat one's brain beat one's brains out beat one's breast beat one's chest beat one's face beat one's head against a stone wall beat one's meat beat one's swords into ploughshares beat one's swords into plowshares beat oneself beat out beat panel beat parry beat senseless beat sheet beat some sense into beat somebody to the punch beat someone at their own game beat someone round the ears beat someone's arse beat someone's ass beat someone's brains out beat someone's time beat the air beat the bat beat the bishop beat the bounds beat the bushes beat the clock beat the cock beat the crap out of beat the crowd beat the daylight out of beat the daylights out of beat the drum beat the drum for beat the dummy beat the dust beat the hoof beat the meat beat the odds beat the pants off beat the poop out of beat the rap beat the shit out of beat the stuffing out of beat the system beat the tar out of beat the wing beat time beat to beat to a pulp beat to pulp beat to quarters beat to the punch beat up beat up on beat your neighbour out of doors beatable beatbox beatee beater beating-heart transplant beatless beatmaker beatmatch beatmatching beatmix beatscape beatscript beatsman beatsmith beaty bebeat beetle big beat blast beat bluebeat breakbeat browbeat build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door burn-beat character beat counterbeat cross-beat deadbeat devil's beating his wife don't that beat all downbeat dramatic beat drumbeat dry beat earnings beat easybeat forbeat forebeat freakbeat heartbeat hoofbeat hyperbeat if that doesn't beat all if that don't beat all inbeat inbeat interbeat it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog march to a different beat march to the beat of a different drum march to the beat of a different drummer march to the beat of one's own drum march to the beat of one's own drummer match beat for beat midbeat misbeat misbeat miss a beat new beat offbeat on the beat onbeat outbeat overbeat police beat popular beat combo pound a beat pulsebeat put an egg in one's shoe and beat it rebeat skip a beat story beat swingbeat tailbeat take a beat to beat the band tobeat type beat unbeatability unbeatable underbeat underbeat upbeat walk the beat wife-beater wingbeat world-beating worldbeat

Entails

hit tread win

Etymologically Related To

beatnik

Context

authorship cooking fencing gay slang hunting in haggling for price military music nautical navigation slang uk us

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

act agitate bedevil befuddle bespeak betoken cheat chisel commove confound confuse create discombobulate displace disturb exceed fag fag out fatigue forge form fox fuddle glare go indicate itinerary jade make mold mould move musical time nonconformist oscillation outdo outgo outmatch outperform outstrip outwear pace path periodic event play poetic rhythm point prosody raise up rate recurrent event recusant rhythmic pattern rip off route sail sailing shake up shape signal sound sound stir up strike stroke surmount surpass throw tire tire out vex vibration wear wear down wear out wear upon weary work

Type Of (IsA)

given name oscillation pace path sailing sound stroke

Manner Of

agitate be cheat get better of glare make move play sail shape strike

Related Terms

backing track

Related Terms

adversary alternate background beat level beat up beatnik bee better blade boring buyer cheat competitive conductor dance dance rhythm defeat dilapidated drum drum strike drumming drums event excel exhausted fabulous focus food frequency game generation half half notes hip hop hit hit repeatedly hitting hunting interference masturbate metric mix music music pattern music tempo music term musical musical drumming musical rhythm musical timing musician news notes on drum outdo overcome pattern pause play pound pulsation pulse pummel punching punching someone repeatedly result rhythm sail scientific scoop screenplay seller series smart someone strike swindler tack tap tapping teleplay tempo term throb time timing tone track ugly vanquish whip win wind windward wining with bee

Similar Terms

beat out circumvent crush drum flap outfox outsmart outwit overreach pound pulsate pulse shell throb thrum thump tired trounce vanquish

Synonym Network

all in beatnik drum exhaust fantabulosa meter outwit perplex pulsate pulse punch rhythm tick

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.