beat
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- noun
- /biːt/
- After years on the beat, the patrol officer knows all the residents by name.
- walk the beat
- beat cop
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Watch on YouTubeIs this this cop a harness bull, or as we would say, a beat cop, right.
- Is this this cop a harness bull, or as we would say, a beat cop, right.
- And the chairman of the Federal Reserve said no one, there is no cop on the beat out there.
- But I think the Conservative Party will tend just to slip into the, the old, the, the old tropes of we need more bobbies on the beat.
- You could buy, have a lot more cops on the beat, pay cops more and, you know, arm them and so on.
Examples
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In a survey of court reporters, half said they had been on the beat for more than six years.
Academic text (2000) -
i owe it to every cop who's walked a beat, every cop who's made a bust, who's ever laid his life on the line!
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You could buy, have a lot more cops on the beat, pay cops more and, you know, arm them and so on.
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So he had the police beat for that, that organization.
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A couple of beat cops.
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You're a beat cop now, so be a beat cop.
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The way I had it figured, I was working one of the toughest beats in the country.
Fiction book (1997) -
In tough times, he'd kept his oath to protect and serve, just like the thousands who walk their beats every day.
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Between 1995 and 1999, the typical neighborhood beat meeting was attended by about seventeen residents.
Academic text (2001) -
Here's what you don't do your first day on the beat.
Idioms
- Offensive
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Hit someone many times until they are badly hurt or win against them very clearly
- Informal
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To feel your heart stop for a moment because you are suddenly excited or scared
- Informal
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Push away a lot of people or fans as a joke about being too popular
- Offensive
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To touch your own private parts to make yourself sexually excited
- Literature
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To change weapons into tools for peaceful work like farming
Compounds
- NSFW
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A group of American writers and artists from the 1950s who reject social rules and choose free creative lives
- Archaic
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A style of pop rock from 1960s Britain with strong rhythms and simple melodies
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Surface Forms
Etymology
A police beat is the area an officer walks often, and the word comes from the idea of 'beating' the streets by walking them again and again. So a beat is the regular route someone patrols.