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beat it

US/ˈbiˌdɪt/

beat it verb: to leave; to go away.

Verb

beat it (third-person singular simple present beats it, present participle beating it, simple past beat it, past participle beat it or beaten it)

  1. (colloquial, derogatory, idiomatic, dismissal) To leave; to go away.
    • […] and he said, "You beat it." So I beat it two squares up to Seventeenth Street and went into a saloon.1916, United States. Commission on Industrial Relations, Francis Patrick Walsh, Basil Maxwell Manly, Industrial relations: Final report and testimony, page 10986
    • Showin' how funky and strong is your fight / It doesn't matter who's wrong or right / Just beat it1983, Michael Jackson, “Beat It”, in Thriller
  2. (Canada, US, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar) To masturbate.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, it.

beat it meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Thai and Vietnamese

beat it in Bengali

চলে যাওয়া, দূর হওয়া, হস্তমৈথুন করা

beat it in Malayalam

run, race, sprint
സ്ഥലം വിടുക, ഓടുക, പായുക, അതിവേഗം ഓടുക, മുഴുവേഗത്തിൽ ഓടുക, മത്സരിച്ചോടുക

beat it in Thai

to go away
ไปให้พ้น bpai hâi pón
vulgar: to masturbate
ช่วยตัวเอง chûai-dtuua-eeng

beat it in Vietnamese

to go away
cút, phắn, xéo, biến

Synonyms of beat it

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Forms of beat it

third-person singular presentbeats it
present participlebeating it
pastbeat it
past participlebeat it
past participlebeaten it

Questions about beat it

What does beat it mean?
Beat it means to leave; to go away.
What is beat it in Bengali?
Beat it in Bengali is চলে যাওয়া, দূর হওয়া, হস্তমৈথুন করা. See Beat it meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is beat it?
Beat it is a verb.
How do you pronounce beat it?
Beat it is pronounced /ˈbiˌdɪt/ (US).
What is the past tense of beat it?
The past tense of beat it is beat it.

Words near beat it in the dictionary

  1. beat hollow
  2. beat into
  3. beat into a cocked hat
  4. beat into fits
  5. beat into shape
  6. beat it
  7. beat Jack out of doors
  8. beat level
  9. beat levels
  10. beat like a jungle drum
  11. beat match

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beat it (page history and authors); beat it (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beat it (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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