beat it

See also: beatit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiˌdɪt/

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Verb

beat it (third-person singular simple present beats it, present participle beating it, simple past and past participle beat it)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat,‎ it.
2. (idiomatic, chiefly as imperative, derogatory, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to 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.

3. (idiomatic, US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) To masturbate, usually a man of himself.

Synonyms

• (go away): beat a retreat, hit it
• (masturbate): beat off
• See also Thesaurus:go away

Translations

to go away

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滾！／滚！ (zh), 滚！ (zh) (gǔn!), 走開！／走开！ (zh), 走开！ (zh) (zǒukāi!), 滾開！／滚开！ (zh), 滚开！ (zh) (gǔnkāi)

• Czech: zmizet, vypadnout; exemplum: Beat it! Zmiz!
• Dutch: ophoepelen (nl), oprotten (nl), opflikkeren (nl), opdonderen (nl), ophoeren, oplazeren (nl), opsodemieteren (nl), wegwezen (nl)
• 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)
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• German: sich packen, verschwinden (de)
• Italian: vai via, vattene
• Japanese: 失せる (うせる, useru)
• Russian: прова́ливай! (ru) (proválivaj!), отвали́! (ru) (otvalí!)
• Spanish: ahuecar el ala
• Thai: ไปให้พ้น (bpai hâi pón)

vulgar: to masturbate

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打飛機／打飞机 (zh) (dǎ fēijī), 打飞机 (zh) (dǎ fēijī)

• Czech: honit si ho
• Finnish: runkata (fi), tumputtaa (fi)
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• French: se branler (fr), se pignoler (fr), se taper une queue (fr), se polir le chinois (fr)
• Japanese: 抜く (ja) (nuku)
• Thai: ช่วยตัวเอง (th) (chûai-dtuua-eeng)