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beats one's meat

beats one's meat is the third-person singular simple present indicative of beat one's meat.

Meaning of beat one's meat

Verb

beat one's meat (third-person singular simple present beats one's meat, present participle beating one's meat, simple past beat one's meat, past participle beaten one's meat or beat one's meat)

  1. (euphemistic, slang, vulgar) To masturbate manually by stroking or rubbing one's penis.
    • I beat my meat instead of having intercourse.1948, Psychiatric quarterly (New York State Dept. of Mental Hygiene), volume 22, page 243
    Synonyms:
    masturbate
  2. (broadly, slang, vulgar) To waste time; to engage in an unproductive activity.
    • He had had the theory that all this space stuff was just the Soviet Union beating its meat, shooting off into space. Other than that he couldn't imagine the slightest use for it all. Space was, after all, space — with nothing in it.1991, William Barton, Michael Capobianco, Fellow Traveler, Spectra, →ISBN

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Beats one's meat is the third-person singular simple present indicative of beat one's meat.

Words near beats one's meat in the dictionary

  1. beats one's brains out
  2. beats one's breast
  3. beats one's chest
  4. beats one's face
  5. beats one's head against a stone wall
  6. beats one's meat
  7. beats one's swords into ploughshares
  8. beats one's swords into plowshares
  9. beats out
  10. beats someone at their own game
  11. beats someone round the ears

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