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beat-down

beat-down is the alternative form of beatdown.

Meaning of beatdown

Noun

beatdown (countable and uncountable, plural beatdowns)

  1. (slang) A severe beating.
  2. (slang) A prescribed situation, usually to advance an angle or establish character, where two or more wrestlers severely beat up another wrestler or performer.
  3. A subgenre of hardcore punk influenced by heavy metal.

Forms of beat-down

pluralbeat-downs

Questions about beat-down

What is beat-down the alternative form of?
Beat-down is the alternative form of beatdown.

Words near beat-down in the dictionary

  1. beat your neighbour
  2. beat your neighbour out of doors
  3. beat-'em-up
  4. beat-'em-ups
  5. beat-boxing
  6. beat-down
  7. beat-match
  8. beat-matched
  9. beat-matches
  10. beat-matching
  11. beat-mix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beat-down (page history and authors); beatdown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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