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beat one's face en · VERB
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(qualifier:gay slang and African-American Vernacular) To apply makeup.
Sitting on the bathtub ledge in our tiny apt and watching my mom beat her face. My mom was a makeup junkie.
2016, Jane Larkworthy, “Tyra Banks Loves Instagram Brows, Contouring and Discovering New Models”, in W Magazine:Nicole took her time as she laid all her MAC cosmetics on the dresser in a neat row. After beating her face down she took off the ivory silk robe to hang it behind the door.
2011, Natasha Johnigan, Unconditional, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 74:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, face.
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