A stroke; a blow. / A pulsation or throb. / (music) 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.

Relating to the Beat Generation.

A beatnik.

simple past tense of beat / (especially colloquial) past participle of beat

(transitive) To hit; to strike. / (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

(US slang) Exhausted. / Dilapidated, beat up. / (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup. / (slang) Boring. / (slang, of a person) Ugly.

(idiomatic, chiefly as imperative, derogatory, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away. / (idiomatic, US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) To masturbate, usually a man of himself.

(nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of beat

To teach or instil by harsh repetition.

(law enforcement) Of a police officer: patrolling his or her assigned area; on duty. / (slang, euphemistic) Synonym of on the game (“working as a prostitute”)