(Australia, New Zealand) An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media.

Alternative spelling of beatdown

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, down. / (transitive) To forcefully diminish the power or influence of; to quell; to squash.

(idiomatic) To patrol on the job, especially as a police officer or guard.

(fencing) The deflection of the incoming attack with a sharp striking motion

(slang) Battered by time and usage; beaten up.

A person who, or thing that, has been beaten up. / (UK, military slang) A raid. / A beating; a hazing.

(transitive) To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows. / (obsolete) To attack suddenly; to alarm.

(music) Any of the even beats in music, as opposed to the odd downbeats

(transitive, now often figuratively) To drive something away with blows or military force. / (intransitive, idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial, chiefly US, Canada) To masturbate, usually a man of himself.