The action by which someone or something is beaten. / A heavy defeat or setback. / The pulsation of the heart.

present participle and gerund of beat

plural of beating

present participle of beat to

present participle of beat it

A stroke; a blow. / A pulsation or throb. / (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece. / A rhythm.

(transitive) To hit; to strike. / (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.

simple past tense of beat / (especially colloquial) past participle of beat

(US slang) Exhausted. / Dilapidated, beat up. / (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup. / (slang) Boring. / (slang, of a person) Ugly.

A beatnik.