Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
beat it. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
beat it, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
beat it in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
beat it you have here. The definition of the word
beat it will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
beat it, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Pronunciation
Verb
beat it (third-person singular simple present beats it, present participle beating it, simple past beat it, past participle beat it or beaten it)
- (idiomatic, chiefly as imperative, derogatory, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away.
- Synonyms: beat a retreat, hit it; see also Thesaurus:go away
1916, United States. Commission on Industrial Relations, Francis Patrick Walsh, Basil Maxwell Manly, Industrial relations: Final report and testimony, page 10986:[…] and he said, "You beat it." So I beat it two squares up to Seventeenth Street and went into a saloon.
1983, Michael Jackson (lyrics and music), “Beat It”, in Thriller:Showin' how funky and strong is your fight / It doesn't matter who's wrong or right / Just beat it
- (idiomatic, US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) To masturbate.
- Synonyms: beat off; see also Thesaurus:masturbate
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, it.
Translations
to go away
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 滾！ / 滚！ (zh) (gǔn!), 走開！ / 走开！ (zh) (zǒukāi!), 滾開！ / 滚开！ (zh) (gǔnkāi)
- Czech: zmizet, vypadnout; exemplum: Beat it! Zmiz!
- Danish: skride (da), skrubbe af (da), * Danish: smutte, forsvinde (da)
- Dutch: ophoepelen (nl), oprotten (nl), opflikkeren (nl), opdonderen (nl), ophoeren, oplazeren (nl), opsodemieteren (nl), wegwezen (nl)
- Esperanto: foriri (eo)
- Finnish: häipyä (fi), poistua (fi)
- French: dégager (fr), décamper (fr), ficher le camp (fr), décaniller (fr), se tirer (fr), se barrer (fr), se tailler (fr), se casser (fr), décrisser (fr)
- German: sich packen, verschwinden (de), weggehen (de)
- Italian: vai via, vattene
- Japanese: 失せる (ja) (うせる, useru)
- Romanian: se căra, își lua tălpășița, face pași
- Russian: прова́ливай! (ru) (proválivaj!), отвали́! (ru) (otvalí!)
- Spanish: largarse (es), pirarse (es), pirárselas (es)
- Thai: ไปให้พ้น (bpai hâi pón)
- Vietnamese: cút (vi), phắn (vi), xéo (vi), biến (vi)
|