beat it

See also: beatit

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbiˌdɪt/

• Audio (General Australian):

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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)

1. (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

2. (idiomatic, US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) To masturbate.

   Synonyms: beat off; see also Thesaurus:masturbate

3. 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)
• 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)
• 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)

vulgar: to masturbate

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打飛機／打飞机 (zh) (dǎ fēijī)

• Czech: honit si ho
• Finnish: runkata (fi), tumputtaa (fi)
• 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)