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BEAT

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

BEAT is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

BEATS-s 2 BEATING-ing 5 BEATEN-en 3

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BEATINGS 11
noun
  1. A stroke; a blow.
  2. A pulsation or throb.
    • a beat of the heart
    • the beat of the pulse
  3. 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.
  4. A rhythm.
    • I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!
  5. The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
  6. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
  7. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
  8. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
  9. broadlyThe route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
    • to walk the beat
  10. broadlyThe primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
  11. datedAn act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
  12. colloquialdatedThat which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
    • the beat of him
  13. datedobsoleteA precinct.
  14. datedA place of habitual or frequent resort.
  15. AustraliadatedAn area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
  16. archaicA low cheat or swindler.
    • a dead beat
  17. The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
  18. A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
  19. slangA makeup look; compare beat one's face.
  20. A beatnik.
verb
  1. transitiveTo hit; to strike.
    • As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
  2. transitiveTo strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
    • He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
  3. intransitiveTo strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
  4. intransitiveTo move with pulsation or throbbing.
  5. transitiveTo win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
    • Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
    • No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.
    • I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
  6. intransitiveTo sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
  7. transitiveTo strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
  8. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
    • Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
  9. UKtransitiveTo persuade the seller to reduce a price.
    • He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
  10. transitiveTo indicate by beating or drumming.
    • to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
  11. To tread, as a path.
  12. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
  13. To be in agitation or doubt.
  14. To make a sound when struck.
    • The drums beat.
  15. intransitiveTo make a succession of strokes on a drum.
    • The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
  16. 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.
  17. transitiveTo arrive at a place before someone.
    • He beat me there.
    • The place is empty; we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.
  18. intransitiveslangvulgarTo have sexual intercourse.
    • Bruv, she came in just as we started to beat.
  19. slangtransitiveTo rob; to cheat or scam.
    • He beat me out of 12 bucks last night.
    • I already beat him, but he hasn't realized it yet.
  20. simple past tense of beat
adjective
  1. USslangExhausted.
    • After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.
  2. slangDilapidated, beat up.
    • Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
  3. Having impressively attractive makeup.
    • Her face was beat for the gods!
  4. slangBoring.
  5. slangUgly.
  6. Relating to the Beat Generation.
    • beat poetry