plural of beating

(nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of beat

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beat it

(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”)

present participle of beat it

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

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

A beatnik.

Relating to the Beat Generation.

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.