Clues for the word "BEAT"
We've had 228 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 485 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer crossword on April 18, 2024.
Definition of beat
- imp. - of Beat
- p. p. - of Beat
- v. t. - To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
- v. t. - To punish by blows; to thrash.
- v. t. - To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
- v. t. - To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
- v. t. - To tread, as a path.
- v. t. - To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
- v. t. - To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
- v. t. - To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- v. t. - To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
- v. i. - To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- v. i. - To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- v. i. - To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
- v. i. - To be in agitation or doubt.
- v. i. - To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
- v. i. - To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
- v. i. - To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
- v. i. - To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
- n. - A stroke; a blow.
- n. - A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
- n. - The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
- n. - A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
- n. - A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
- v. i. - A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
- v. i. - A place of habitual or frequent resort.
- v. i. - A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
- a. - Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
Referring Clues
- The conductor keeps it
- Lick
- Tuckered out
- Cop's milieu
- Vanquished
- Rock and roll prerequisite
- Newswriter's specialty
- Kerouac, e.g.
- Conquer
- Kerouac or Burroughs
- Overcome
- Ready for the sack
- Heart's rhythm
- Flatfoot's circuit
- Play, as drums
- Dancing stimulus
- Regular drumming
- Doozy
- Outscore
- Thump
- All in
- A drummer keeps it
- Wiped out
- Jack Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg
- Cop's path
- Rhythm
- Ready to crash
- Exhausted
- Recipe direction
- Switch
- "___ It" (Michael Jackson song)
- Pooped
- Patrol officer's rounds
- Flap
- Police officer's regular route
- Hit
- Ready to hit the hay
- Defeat
- Cadence
- Cop's route
- Bushed
- Ready to turn in
- Pulsation
- "We Got the ___" (Go-Go's hit of 1982)
- Moment
- It's kept by a conductor
- Defeat in a match
- Musical tempo
- Play, as a drum
- Cop's assignment
- Officer's route
- Reporter's assignment
- Shot
- "The ___ Goes On"
- Worn out
- Drummer's assignment
- "We Got the ___" (Go-Go's hit)
- Come out ahead
- Score more than
- Policeman's route
- Kerouac's generation
- Rhythmic pulse
- Drummer's forte
- Cop's charge
- '50s generation
- Out of gas
- Newshawk's territory
- Metronome's output
- Drum contribution
- Thumped or trumped
- Apt rhyme for "defeat"
- Defeated
- Tanned
- Surpass
- About ready to drop
- Trash
- Stir vigorously
- Musical pulse
- Dance to it
- Utterly exhausted
- Cop's territory
- Patrolman's route
- Memorable generation
- Pulsate
- Thrash
- Trounce
- Pulse
- Tempo
- Throb
- Thwack
- See 80-Down
- Drummer's responsibility
- Really tired
- Drummer's duty
- Edged out
- All tuckered out
- "And the ___ goes on"
- Get the better of
- Maestro's meter
- Patrolman's rounds
- Overpower
- Shellac
- Knocked out
- Dog-tired
- Police officer's patrol
- Cop's patrol
- Drummer's output
- Cop's rounds
- Whip
- Drummer's pride
- Dead on one's feet
- Recipe verb
- *Musical starting point
- Mix batter
- Drummers keep it
- With 32-Down, 1950s counterculture figures
- Dog tired
- Heart rhythm
- Totally exhausted
- Hit repeatedly
- Techno basis
- Plumb tuckered out
- "___ the Clock"
- Worn-out
- Really wiped out
- Patrol found on the borders of 17-, 34-, 43- and 64-Across
- Do meringue
- Recipe instruction
- Drubbed or whipped
- Word with drum or heart
- A drummer makes it
- What to do to a drum
- Drum ___
- It comes from a drum?
- Defeat someone, as in checkers
- What you get from a drum
- 1950s generation member
- What a drummer keeps
- Musical rhythm
- Mix (eggs) briskly
- Drummer's job
- The English ___
- Baffle - all in
- '81 Go-Go's album "Beauty and the ___"
- Cane provided by master
- One pounded with the feet?
- Meaning 'pound', it gets pounded
- Put away by book club
- Space patrolled and exhausted?
- Do better than thrash?
- Corporally punish and deprive a girl of rice
- Worst - and best!
- Defeat for a bet?
- Pound
- Pulse and bean starter to have for supper
- Start the game and win
- Hit by 4 central characters of 60s' pop group
- Exhausted, in need of first aid in punt
- Completely exhausted
- Pound - defeat
- Wager about a pound
- See 22
- Grieve like a gorilla?
- See 9
- See 7
- Thoroughly exhausted
- Wager about a defeat
- Patrolling route
- Put on about a pound
- Raise game although ready to drop
- Six-footer scoffing at little boy's conduct
- See 10
- Flog Ecstasy in club
- Speculate about a defeat
- Whip round for bobby
- Pound, or what gets pounded?
- Attend for police duty
- Defeat in a contest
- Go-Go's "Beauty and the ___"
- Vanquish
- Subdued
- Needing a nap
- Trounced, perhaps
- Extremely tired
- Top
- Finished ahead of
- Do better than bang the drum?
- Flog
- Outplay
- Journalist's focus
- Overcome echo in club
- Prevailed over
- Ready to collapse
- Totally drained
- Mix, as eggs
- Do better than live for a perfect ending
- In this round, you get the better of
- In need of a nap
- Heart or drum add-on
- "Turn the ___ Around" (Vicki Sue Robinson song)
- "The ___ With Ari Melber"
- Length of a quarter note in 4/4 time
- Pummel
- "You Can't Stop the ___" ("Hairspray" finale)
- Kind of poet
- One pounded with the feet?
- Done in
- Rap producer's creation
- Drum emanation
- Edge out
- Thing a drummer keeps
- Verb in egg recipes
- Is Bobby exhausted by it?
- Completely pooped
- Make a sound on a drum
- Do better than thrash?
- Measure of time, in music
- Brief pause
- Super exhausted
- Instruction in a meringue recipe
- Defeated soundly
- Best black tea brewed
- Rhythmically strike or outperform
- Defeat for a bet?
- "Sunset ___"
- Totally wiped
- Score more points than
- Defeat the drummer?
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 18, 2024
- Family Time - April 01, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 02, 2024
- Daily American - March 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 19, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 12, 2024
- LA Times - January 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 13, 2024
- LA Times - January 07, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 01, 2024
- Daily American - December 25, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 24, 2023
- Mirror Daily - December 23, 2023
- LA Times - December 05, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - November 24, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 19, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 13, 2023
- Your Life Choices - November 13, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - November 07, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 01, 2023
- Family Time - October 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 26, 2023
- Family Time - September 18, 2023
- USA Today - August 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 10, 2023
- Mirror Daily - August 09, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 08, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 06, 2023
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