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  • 101Beat Circus — Infobox musical artist Name = Beat Circus Img capt = Promotional Photo Background = group or band Origin = Flagicon|USA Boston, Massachusetts, United States Genre = American Gothic Experimental rock Years active = 2002 ndash;Present Label =… …

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  • 102beat — 1. To strike; to throb or pulsate. 2. A stroke, impulse, or pulsation, as of the heart or pulse. 3. Activity of a cardiac chamber produced by catching a stimulus generated elsewhere in the …

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  • 103Beat Girl — Infobox Film name = Beat Girl caption = director = Edmond T. Gréville producer = George W. Willoughby writer = Dail Ambler narrator = starring = David Farrar Noëlle Adam Christopher Lee Gillian Hills Adam Faith music = John Barry Trevor Peacock… …

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  • 104beat — I v 1. batter, pound, lay on, pommel, pummel, Sl. paste, Archaic. belabor; thrash, flog, lash, switch, birch, scourge, flagellate, whip, horsewhip, curry, strap, thresh, flail, cowhide, spank, Brit. Dial. yerk, Inf. tan [s.o. s] hide, Inf. trim,… …

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  • 105beat around or about the bush — idi beat around or about the bush, to avoid talking about a subject directly …

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  • 106beat one's brains out — phrasal or beat one s brains : to cudgel one s brain : try continually and energetically to think out something difficult * * * beat one s brains or beat one s brains out To puzzle about something • • • Main Entry: ↑beat …

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  • 107beat one's brains — phrasal see beat one s brains out * * * beat one s brains or beat one s brains out To puzzle about something • • • Main Entry: ↑beat …

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  • 108beat someone up — ASSAULT, attack, mug, thrash; informal knock about/around, do over, work over, rough up, fill in, lay into, lace into, sail into, beat the living daylights out of, let someone have it; Brit. informal duff someone up; N. Amer. informal beat up on …

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  • 109beat the drum — phrasal also beat a drum : to declaim as meritorious or especially significant : publicize or argue noisily publicity men beating the drum about the new star beat the drum for him as a candidate * * * bang/beat/the drum …

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  • 110beat-out — adjective Etymology: from past participle of beat out : weary, exhausted : beat III 1 too beat out to think, even about home L.M.Uris …

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