beat off en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(figuratively, often, transitive) To drive something away with blows or military force.
...which Action did not so much grieve the English, as trouble and vex the Picts and Scots, who were incessantly gauled and frequently beat off by these Danish Troops.
1697, Carradoc Of Lhancarvan, The history of Wales, page 33:(Betty) Did you have any trouble rescuing me? (Archie) I sure did, Betty! I had to beat off three other guys!
1968 September 14, Betty & Me, volume 16, Archie Comics, front cover:First reports were that the Reds, in five gunboats and swarms of junks, succeeded in landing on tiny Wuchiu in Formosa Strait, but were beaten off with many captured.
1954 November 27, “Red Assault on Tiny Isle Beaten Off, Say Nationalists”, in The Daily Colonist, volume 96, number 294, Victoria, British Columbia, page 1, column 6:London Liverpool Street beat off stiff competition to be highly commended in this category, despite having had no major redevelopment for three decades.
2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: London Liverpool Street - Network Rail”, in RAIL, number 940, page 47:
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(Canada, US, colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar) To masturbate by stimulating one's own penis.
Example 1: "I don't need a girlfriend. I just need some swimsuit catalogs, so I can beat off six or seven times a day."
2003, David Burke, The Slangman guide to dirty English: dangerous expressions Americans use, page 13:
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(colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar) To waste time.
I beat off at work all day; I didn't get anything done.
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(qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, transitive) To shoot (a gun).
He beat his pistol off into the air.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| beaten off | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| beating off | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| beat off | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| beat off | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| beats off | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Synonyms
jerk the gherkin · knock one out · play pocket pool · masturbate · jerk it · bash one out · jerk off · service oneself · skeet · abuse · rub one off · jerk · goon · toss · frig · wank off · beat off · self-pollute · jerk one out · play with oneself · pleasure oneself · jerk one off · make the bald man cry · self-abuse · wank · whack off · crank one out · rub one out · bate · fap · jack it · mastuprate · beat it · jork it · toss off · yank · touch oneself · jack off · stroke