an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
early 13c., from O.Fr. beste (11c., Mod.Fr. bête) "animal, wild beast," figuratively "fool, idiot;" from L. bestia "beast, wild animal," of unknown origin. replacing O.E. deor (see deer) as the generic word for "wild creature," only to be ousted 16c. by animal.
n. an ugly person. : That beast should give the monkey back its face before the poor creature bumps into something.
n. a crude, violent, or sexually aggressive male; an animal. : Oh, Martin, you're such a beast!
n. liquor. : Pour me some more of that beast.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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