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breast-beatings

breast-beatings is the plural of breast-beating.

Meaning of breast-beating

Noun

breast-beating (countable and uncountable, plural breast-beatings)

  1. Synonym of chest-beating.
    • All the breast-beating and finger-pointing by those who don't like the ad, shocks me.1979 April 14, David M. Stryker, “A Contribution”, in Gay Community News, page 4
    Synonyms:
    chest-beating
  2. The act of displaying remorse by or as if by striking one's breast.

Questions about breast-beatings

What is breast-beatings the plural of?
Breast-beatings is the plural of breast-beating.

Words near breast-beatings in the dictionary

  1. breast the tape
  2. breast up
  3. breast wall
  4. breast walls
  5. breast-beating
  6. breast-beatings
  7. breast-fed
  8. breast-feed
  9. breast-feeding
  10. breast-feeds
  11. breast-girdle

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