beat it
See also: beatit
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbiˌdɪt/
Audio (AU) (file)
Verb
beat it (third-person singular simple present beats it, present participle beating it, simple past and past participle beat it)
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see beat, it.
- (idiomatic, chiefly as imperative, derogatory, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away.
- 1916, United States. Commission on Industrial Relations, Francis Patrick Walsh, Basil Maxwell Manly, Industrial relations: Final report and testimony, page 10986:
- ... and he said, "You beat it." So I beat it two squares up to Seventeenth Street and went into a saloon.
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- (idiomatic, US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) To masturbate, usually a man of himself.
Synonyms
- (go away): beat a retreat
- (masturbate): beat off
- See also Thesaurus:go away
Translations
to go away
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