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noun
1.
a person or thing that beats.
2.
an implement or device for beating something: a rug beater.
3.
Hunting. a person who rouses or drives game from cover.
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Papermaking. a machine for beating half-stuff to pulp by separating and shortening the fibers to produce a gelatinous mass.
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EXPANDTextiles. the reed.
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COLLAPSENewfoundland. a young seal, usually a month to six weeks old, having completely or almost completely shed its initial white fur.
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Beater
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| 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. |
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Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
| Main Entry: | beater |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | a junky old car |
| Example: | That beater gets her back and forth to work. |
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Word Origin & History
beater
late 15c., "a person who punishes," agent noun from beat (v.). Of various mechanical devices that "beat" in some sense from early 17c. Meaning "one who rouses game" is from 1825. Slang meaning "old car" is from c.1980.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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