Clues for the word "BEAT"
We've had 231 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 552 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on August 10, 2026.
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?
- Output from a drummer
- Soundly defeated
- Triumph over
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - August 10, 2026
- Your Life Choices - July 31, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - July 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 20, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - June 23, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 22, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 13, 2026
- LA Times - May 30, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - May 12, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 07, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 28, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 04, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - March 31, 2026
- New York Times - March 25, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 16, 2026
- Daily American - March 02, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 23, 2026
- LA Times - January 20, 2026
- Mirror Mini - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 01, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 01, 2026
- Daily American - December 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 15, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 06, 2025
- Daily American - July 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 04, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 28, 2025
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