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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.

(music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.

The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.

The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency

(authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.

(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially

The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

(journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).

(dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.

(dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.

(Southern US) A precinct.

(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

(AU) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See {{w|gay beat}}.

(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.

(hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

(fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

(slang) A makeup look; compare (beat one's face).

To hit; to strike. +

To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

To move with pulsation or throbbing.

To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

(nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.

To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.

To mix food in a rapid fashion. ''Compare whip.''

(in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price. +

To indicate by beating or drumming.

To tread, as a path.

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

To be in agitation or doubt.

To make a sound when struck.

To make a succession of strokes on a drum.

To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.

To arrive at a place before someone.

(vulgar) To have sexual intercourse. +

(slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.

(tense)

(colloquial) (part)

(exhausted) (slang) Exhausted.

(slang) Dilapidated, beat up.

(gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.

(slang) Boring.

(of a person) Ugly.

(beatnik) A beatnik.

Relating to the Beat Generation.