v
Pronunciation spelling of hit (in the senses "punch", "kill", etc). [(transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.]
n
A brutal and decisive defeat of an individual or group of people by another who had thoroughly dominated them in doing so, such as in sports.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive) to strike or hit repeatedly
v
(informal, transitive) To physically damage something or assault someone.
v
Alternative form of beat around the bush [(idiomatic) To treat a topic, but omit its main points, often intentionally.]
n
(card games) Synonym of beggar-my-neighbor
v
(idiomatic) To struggle to think or remember something.
v
Synonym of beat one's breast
v
Alternative form of bang one's head against a brick wall. [(intransitive, idiomatic) To waste effort on a futile project.]
v
(US) To defeat by a narrow margin.
v
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, time.
v
To go somewhere before many others do.
v
Alternative form of beat the daylights out of [(transitive, idiomatic) To beat (someone) severely]
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To beat (someone) severely
v
(idiomatic) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low.
v
(idiomatic, euphemistic) To defeat (someone) decisively in a fight or a competition.
v
(slang) To escape legal conviction and punishment for a crime which one has been charged with committing; to be acquitted.
v
(idiomatic, vulgar) To beat (someone) severely.
v
(idiomatic) To beat very severely.
v
(transitive, colloquial, loosely) To defeat severely in various, even non-contact, competitive sports.
v
To get something done (derived from the idea of beating for game).
n
(professional wrestling, slang) A prescribed situation, usually to advance an angle or establish character, where two or more wrestlers severely beat up another wrestler or performer.
adj
(US, regional) That beats or surpasses all others; best, or most excessive or remarkable.
v
(idiomatic, colloquial or slang) To fire a weapon; to shoot with a gun.
v
(slang, vulgar) To hurt or beat up.
v
(transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
v
(slang) To strike someone so forcefully that they are rendered unconscious.
v
(prizefighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest.
n
An extremely one-sided victory.
v
Alternative form of curb stomp [To stomp on someone's head, forcing it into a street curb (often while they are positioned with their teeth biting the curb).]
v
(transitive) To beat, thrash; to drub.
adv
With a dab, or sudden contact.
v
(transitive, Britain, slang) To beat up.
v
(slang, transitive) To hit
v
(South Africa, slang) To beat up; clobber; thrash.
v
(UK, transitive, slang) To beat up, to give a beating to.
v
To fight, especially with fists.
n
Alternative spelling of dustup [(informal) A scuffle or fight.]
n
(informal) A scuffle or fight.
v
(Britain, idiomatic) To attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more; to attempt to arouse fresh interest in something that is either hopeless or already settled.
v
(transitive, archaic) To beat; to maul.
v
(transitive) To hit someone with a club.
n
(boxing, idiomatic) An ability to be knocked out easily
v
(transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
v
(idiomatic) To repeatedly or continually emphasise (an opinion or idea) until or so that a person or group of people understands it.
v
(informal, vulgar, transitive, intransitive) To beat to a pulp; beat up
v
(idiomatic, US, Canada, colloquial) To beat someone in a competition, fight, or other situation.
v
(Canada, US, euphemistic) Alternative form of kick someone's ass [(idiomatic, vulgar, chiefly US, Canada) To clobber someone; to beat someone severely.]
n
(slang) A great loss or defeat; licking.
v
(intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
v
To hit someone, or behave violently towards them.
n
Alternative form of knocker-up [(Britain, historical) A person whose job was to go from house to house in the early morning and wake up workers by tapping on the bedroom window with a long pole or similarly convenient implement.]
v
(transitive) To beat with a kurbash.
v
(slang) To start a fight (sometimes with on).
n
Synonym of monkey's allowance
v
(archaic, East Midlands and Northern England) To hit someone on the head.
v
(idiomatic, slang, vulgar, US) A good-humored threat of physical harm.
v
Alternative form of open a can of whoop ass [(idiomatic, slang, vulgar, US) A good-humored threat of physical harm.]
v
(slang, vulgar, transitive) To slap powerfully in the face; to deliver a pimp slap to.
v
(transitive, slang) To beat to a pulp.
v
To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.
v
(transitive) To repeatedly hit a person.
v
(intransitive, slang) To attack or target a group of greater power or status than oneself.
n
Alternative spelling of punch-up [(informal) A fight with the fists.]
v
(UK, slang, obsolete) To beat or thrash.
v
(somewhat dated, idiomatic) to give someone a punishment.
v
(transitive, slang, dated) To beat soundly.
n
A fight, tussle, skirmish.
v
(informal, US, transitive) To beat; to thrash.
v
(video games) To beat utterly and easily; to trounce; to waffle-stomp.
v
(slang, vulgar) To chat casually; to gossip.
v
(literally) To miss a beat.
v
(transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
v
To browbeat or reprimand someone harshly, usually in front of other people.
n
(figuratively) Something unexpectedly said or done which causes shock or offense; an insult, rebuke, or rebuff.
n
Alternative spelling of slap down [A harsh reprimand; a scolding, especially in public.]
v
To defeat utterly and decisively, especially in a humiliating way.
v
(informal) To beat up physically.
v
(transitive) To soundly defeat, to trounce.
v
(transitive, slang) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
v
(obsolete) To beat until bruised.
v
(informal, hyperbolic) To be punished severely.
v
(boxing) To be knocked out.
v
(informal) To utterly defeat an opponent.
n
An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
n
An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
v
to strike or smash (into) something with great force or impact
v
(idiomatic) To attempt to get work or money from someone who is too weak or poor to provide it.
v
(idiomatic, US, slang) To defeat thoroughly; to trounce.
v
(slang, transitive) To incite or generate.
n
(UK, dialect, archaic) wrestling
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