beaking 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
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
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
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