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beat off with a stick en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To reject (a person making an unwanted amorous approach).
    • After about sixteen weeks, Clemmie obviously took a swim in a hormone bath because suddenly she was all over me like a rash that no ointment could cure – I couldn't beat her off with a stick so we had sex. 2018, Simon Hooper, Dadlife:
    • I mentioned that while pictures from my teens and twenties showed I was pretty cute, somehow I'd never attracted many guys, while my (no-less-adorable) kid sister had to beat them off with a stick. 2006, Tony Attwood, Temple Grandin, Asperger's and Girls:
    • He probably had more women than he could beat off with a stick. His kind always did. 2019, K. A. Ray, Racing Hearts:

Forms

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beat off with a stick Tense=Past lexicographic
beaten off with a stick Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
beats off with a stick Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
beating off with a stick Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic