beak off

Verb

beak off (third-person singular simple present beaks off, present participle beaking off, simple past and past participle beaked off)

1. (slang) To complain.
   • Stop beaking off at everyone all the —
     The first pitch blows right by.2005, Adrian Michael Kelly, Down Sterling Road, page 87
   • She'd been an absolute bear all day yesterday--to the point where Devon had shoved her off her zip-line platform when she'd started beaking off at him for not pointing out the moose he'd seen in the first section.2016, Jean Oram, Tequila and Candy Drops
2. (slang) To boast.
   • All you do is sit around, scratch your balls, rub your lucky tummy and beak off about how much money you're making!1997, Ronald Mark Chambers, Three Really Nasty Plays, page 172
   • During a ballyhooed interview with the Toronto Daily Star, Rocco beaked off that he sometimes sold as many as one thousand cases of whiskey a day.2009, Stephen Schneider, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, page 178
3. (slang) To yammer; to blab.
   • No one seemed to care that a lowly trooper was beaking off during an officers' meeting: in fact, clearly everyone had been listening to him, not the other way around.2019, R.W. Laidlaw, Oasis, page 234
   • Nobody should have known it was there, but someone obviously did. Frank or Mitch probably beaked off to the wrong person and they came sniffing around.2019, A.F. Henley, Road Trip
4. (slang) To be truant; to skip school.
   • Most attend school reluctantly and some 'beak off' (play truant) regularly.1996, John Sugden, Boxing and Society: An International Analysis, page 102
   • I beaked off school on the afternoon of one of the most important Orange marches of the year.1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, page 49