Usually means: Defeat or repel an attacker.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word beat off:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. beat off: Merriam-Webster
  2. beat off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beat off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. beat off: Wiktionary
  5. beat off: Dictionary.com
  6. Beat Off, Beat off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. beat off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. beat off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beat off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beat off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beat off: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beat off: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. beat off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Beat Off, beat-off: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (beat off)

verb:  (transitive, now often figurative) To drive something away with blows or military force.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial, chiefly US, Canada) To masturbate by stimulating one's own penis.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial) To waste time.
verb:  (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To shoot (a gun).

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