beats
/biːts/
beats is the plural of beat.
beats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of beat.
Meaning of beat
Noun
beat (plural beats)
- A stroke; a blow.
- He, […]with a careless beat, / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC
- A pulsation or throb.
- a beat of the heart
- 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.
- I love watching her dance to a pretty drum beat with a bouncy rhythm!
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
Noun
the beats pl (plural only)
Proper noun capitalized: Beats
Beats
- A diminutive of the female given names Beatrice and Beatrix.
Origin of beats
Clipping of Beatrice or Beatrix + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Phrases with beats
- beats it
- beats me
- beats on
- beats to
- beats up
- bad beats
- beats all
- beats off
- beats out
- dry beats
- off beats
- back beats
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- beats back
- beats down
- beats feet
- beats into
- beats time
- dead beats
- type beats
- beats about
- beats up on
- blast beats
- heart beats
- story beats
- barber beats
- beats as one
- police beats
- beats the air
- beats the bat
- beats Banaghan
- beats the cock
- beats the drum
- beats the dust
- beats the hoof
- beats the meat
- beats the odds
- beats the wing
- dramatic beats
- beats into fits
- beats one's ass
- beats the clock
- beats the crowd
- beats the dummy
- beats to a pulp
- beats into shape
- beats one's face
- beats one's meat
- beats the bishop
- beats the bounds
- beats the bushes
- beats the system
- Bo Diddley beats
- beats one's brain
- beats one's chest
- beats a dead horse
- beats one's breast
- beats the drum for
- beats to the punch
- beats someone's ass
- beats the pants off
- beats about the bush
- beats someone's arse
- beats someone's time
- beats the tar out of
- beats a hasty retreat
- beats around the bush
- beats the poop out of
- beats the shit out of
- beats off with a stick
- beats one's brains out
- beats into a cocked hat
- beats like a jungle drum
- beats the stuffing out of
- beats with the ugly stick
- beats someone's brains out
- beats the daylights out of
- beats someone round the ears
- beats someone at their own game
- beats one's swords into plowshares
- beats one's swords into ploughshares
- beats one's head against a stone wall
- puts an egg in one's shoe and beats it
Words that rhyme with beats
Questions about beats
- What does beats mean?
- Beats means an assault by beating.
- What is beats the plural of?
- Beats is the plural of beat.
- What part of speech is beats?
- Beats can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce beats?
- Beats is pronounced /biːts/.
Words near beats in the dictionary
Source and license
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