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beast n.

1. an unpopular or unpleasant person.

[UK]Misogonus in Farmer (1906) II i: Thou disardly drunkard! thou be- silling beast!
[UK]Polwart Invectiues Capitane Allexander Montgomeree and Pollvart in Parkinson (Poems) (2000) IV line 33: Bot breflie, beist, I anser the. In sermone schort I am content.
[UK]H. Porter Two Angry Women of Abington D3: Drunke? hees a beast and he be drunke, theres no man that is a sober man will be drunk, hees a boy and he be drunke.
[UK]Rowlands \xe2\x80\x98A Shee-Devill Made Tame by a Smith\xe2\x80\x99 Knave of Clubs 35: Out, filthy beast, I loath thy lookes, / And hate thee like a toad.
[UK]Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fooles V v: Was there euer such a monster hatch\xe2\x80\x99d [...] So shameless, so frontlesse a beast as thou art?
[UK]T. Killigrew Parson\xe2\x80\x99s Wedding (1664) V ii: A pair of those what d\xe2\x80\x99ye call\xe2\x80\x99ems, those he-waiting women, Beasts, that Custome imposes upon ladies.
[UK]T. Shadwell Epsom Wells IV i: frib.: As Gad judge me, the Jade\xe2\x80\x99s drunk. mrs. frib.: \xe2\x80\x99Tis you are drunk, Beast, every night.
[UK]Otway Friendship in Fashion IV i: Beast! Brute! Barbarian! Sot!
[UK]T. Baker Tunbridge Walks III i: Thou art a rude Beast, and \xe2\x80\x99tis pity any thing that\xe2\x80\x99s Humans should Couple with thee.
[UK]J. Gay Beggar\xe2\x80\x99s Opera II v: Women are Decoy Ducks; who can trust them! Beasts, Jades [...] Whores!
[UK]Chickens Feed Capons 14: They call me Old Fool, and drunken old Beast to my Face.
[UK]W. Scott Kenilworth I 134: \xe2\x80\x98Dull beast!\xe2\x80\x99 replied Varney.
[UK]R. Nicholson Cockney Adventures 18 Nov. 20: So it is, indeed, yer beast \xe2\x80\x93 yes, [...] yer nasty, dirty, filthy, stinking, short-legged little warmint!
[UK]Thackeray Adventures of Philip (1899) 380: \xe2\x80\x98The youth is more offensive than the parent.\xe2\x80\x99 \xe2\x80\x98A most disgusting little beast.\xe2\x80\x99.
[UK]R. Broughton Nancy II 154: Look at him! [...] did you ever see such a Beast as he looks?
[UK]G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 41: I never hated anyone that I know of, but I do hate him now. He\xe2\x80\x99s a beast.
[UK]New Boys\xe2\x80\x99 World 29 Dec. 96: Sproggs \xe2\x80\x93 you beast!
[UK]C. Mackenzie Sinister Street I 179: \xe2\x80\x98Damn old Brownjohn,\xe2\x80\x99 growled Michael. \xe2\x80\x98I think he\xe2\x80\x99s the damnedest old beast that ever lived.\xe2\x80\x99.
[UK]Union Jack 5 May 17: That must be the new beast\xe2\x80\x99s bed on the right.
[US]S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 110: This beast, this conductor hollered at me.
[US]J.T. Farrell Gas-House McGinty 91: Josephine, I forbid you to speak to that beast of a man.
[UK]J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 43: Scruffy little beast, shiny blue suit, looked pretty shady all told.
[US]T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany\xe2\x80\x99s 21: I mean he\xe2\x80\x99s sweet when he isn\xe2\x80\x99t drunk, but let him start lapping up the vino, and oh God quel beast!
[UK]P. Barnes Ruling Class I xv: Filthy beast!
[UK]F. Pitt-Kethley Sky Ray Lolly 46: The little beasts from my snob school.
[UK]A. Wheatle Dirty South 104: If any other non-Muslim girl was thinking about linking with the three beasts, would they obey Courtney, Milton and Adrian?

2. a homosexual male prostitute.

J. Marston on Lord Hunsdon in Works (1887) 319: At Hoxton now his monstrous love he feasts / for there he keeps a bawdy house for beasts.

3. a bicycle [synon. with SE beast, a horse].

[UK]Sporting Times 3 Sept. 2/4: [T]he vicious beast of a bicycle, seeing its opportunity, shied suddenly to one side.
[UK]J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.

4. (US) a (fast) car.

[US]Mansell & Hall \xe2\x80\x98Hot Rod Terms\xe2\x80\x99 AS XXIX:2 93: Beast, n. A car.
[US]E. Gilbert Vice Trap 71: Your jalopy\xe2\x80\x99s no real beast, O.K.
[US]Long Beach Press-Telegram 14 Dec. 8: Beep beep to all you handcuffs whose teenagers fizz it up when you won\xe2\x80\x99t let them have the beast.

5. a young woman, usu. unattractive.

(a) (US, mainly campus) a young woman, esp. an unattractive but sexually voracious one.

[[US]Weseen Dict. Amer. Sl. 306: [General] Beastess \xe2\x80\x93 A coarse or degraded woman; a girl or a woman disliked].
[US]Jarnagin & Eikel \xe2\x80\x98N. Texas Agricultural College Sl.\xe2\x80\x99 AS XXIII:3/4 248: Beast. Distasteful female.
[US]Goldin et al. DAUL 24/2: Beast. A prostitute or lewd woman.
[US]W. White \xe2\x80\x98Wayne University Sl.\xe2\x80\x99 AS XXX:4 302: beast [...] n. Woman of loose morals.
[US]H. Simmons Corner Boy 28: What\xe2\x80\x99s the matter [...] the beast don\xe2\x80\x99t move you?
,\xc2\xa0[US]Wentworth & Flexner DAS 24/2: beast A cheap prostitute or B-girl.

(b) (US, mainly campus) any unattractive young woman.

[US]Goldin et al. DAUL 24/2: Beast. [...] a very homely or slatternly woman.
[US]L. Uris Battle Cry (1964) 47: Confidentially I know she looks like a beast.
[US]Baker et al. CUSS.
[US]T. Berger Sneaky People (1980) 61: She was there with another girl [...] a beast who had pimples and wore glasses.
[US]E. Folb Runnin\xe2\x80\x99 Down Some Lines 144: Other derogatory terms for women liken their unattractiveness to animals [...] Terms like [...] beast, bat, and boogabear.
[Aus]R.G. Barrett You Wouldn\xe2\x80\x99t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 194: What I am I going to do with you \xe2\x80\x98Fat Fuck\xe2\x80\x99 [...] You\xe2\x80\x99re a beast, there\xe2\x80\x99s no two ways about it.
OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. [Internet] beast n. ugly or unattractive girl.
[Aus]R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 83: Gwendolyn [...] was an absolute beast. She had a miserable, fat face, pushed into a bony, hog head.

(c) (US/W.I.) a girlfriend viewed in a sexual context, esp. when she has another established relationship already.

[US]T. Heggen Mister Roberts 59: The last time I was there, that was a year ago, man, I found a fine little beast. Cutest little doll you ever saw, blonde, a beautiful figure, really a beautiful girl.
[US]H. Simmons Corner Boy 28: That beast of yours doesn\xe2\x80\x99t think so. [Ibid.] 49: Man, dig that crazy [rump] on the big beast in the plaid skirt!
[WI]Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage.

6. (drugs) as a drug [? their unpredictable effects].

(a) heroin; thus heroin addiction.

[US] \xe2\x80\x98Broadway Sam\xe2\x80\x99 in D. Wepman et al. Life (1976) 98: His clothes were tattered, but that didn\xe2\x80\x99t matter \xe2\x80\x94 / Not to Sam, at least, / As long as Mable his whore was able / To satisfy his beast.
[US]G. Scott-Heron Vulture (1996) 119: I knew the Beast when I saw him, though [...] The Beast was dope.
[US]R. Klein Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.].
[Aus]L. Davies Candy 33: There was a time back then, before we finally succumbed to the Beast, when we would regularly try to stop.
[US]ONDCP Street Terms 2: Beast \xe2\x80\x94 Heroin. [Ibid.] 21: The beast \xe2\x80\x94 Heroin.

(b) LSD.

[US]R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970) 43: beast, the [...] LSD-25.
[US] AS LVII:4 289: A sampling of current names for varieties of LSD would include [...] beast.
[US]ONDCP Street Terms 2: Beast \xe2\x80\x94 [...] LSD.

7. also constr. with the; an authority figure; coined by black nationalists in the 1960s; it lapsed thereafter but reappeared among rebellious youths in the 1990s.

(a) (orig. US black) a white person.

[US] \xe2\x80\x98Sl. of Watts\xe2\x80\x99 in Current Sl. III:2 10: Beast, n. Caucasian.
[US]\xe2\x80\x98Iceberg Slim\xe2\x80\x99 Mama Black Widow 101: The white beasts out there let black people rot and die.
[US]J. Webb Fields of Fire (1980) 215: Been bleedin\xe2\x80\x99 Whitey\xe2\x80\x99s war. Killin\xe2\x80\x99 brown folks, ain\xe2\x80\x99 no reason. Been dyin\xe2\x80\x99 fo\xe2\x80\x99 the Beast.
[US]E. Folb Runnin\xe2\x80\x99 Down Some Lines 4: Expressions like [...] beast (white person), fronts (suit of clothes), gunny (marijuana) [...] have been common currency among blacks for some time.
[US](con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 32: He leans down into the Beaver\xe2\x80\x99s face and grunts. \xe2\x80\x98The Joker knows that you the beast because the Joker is a blue-eyed soul brother.\xe2\x80\x99.

(b) the police; a police officer.

[US]H. Selby Jr Requiem for a Dream (1987) 177: Them two mutha fuckas, The Beas, bus me jim.
[UK]J. Morton Lowspeak 22: Beast (W.I.) a police officer.
[UK]V. Headley Yardie 77: I don\xe2\x80\x99t wan\xe2\x80\x99 to be here when the beas\xe2\x80\x99 them come.
[UK](con. 1979\xe2\x80\x9380) A. Wheatle Brixton Rock (2004) 1: There was no way he would let the beast know of the tribulation.
[US]\xe2\x80\x98Tour\xc3\xa9\xe2\x80\x99 Portable Promised Land (ms.) 157: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] The breaks. The beast. The blues. The vapors.

(c) (Aus. prison) a prison officer.

[Aus]Tupper & Wortley Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. [Internet] Beast. Term of denigration for prison officer.

8. (US) the 2 train, part of the IRT subway sustem in NYC.

[US]N.Y. Times Mag. 31 Jan. [Internet] There is part of the No. 2 IRT line - from Nostrand to New Lots Avenue in Brooklyn - that is indisputably bad. It is dangerous and ugly, and when you get to New Lots Avenue you cannot imagine why you went. The transit police call this line \xe2\x80\x98\'the Beast\xe2\x80\x99.
[US]D. Winslow The Force [ebook] It actually throbs from the IRT subway line [...] Malone used to ride the #2 train, the one they called \xe2\x80\x98The Beast\xe2\x80\x99 back then.

9. (UK prison) a child molester, a sexual offender.

[[UK]Reynolds\xe2\x80\x99s Newspaper 24 June 5/5: A Beast \xe2\x80\x94 James Blizzard [...] was charged with having committed an indecent assault upon Agnes Holbrook].
[[Aus]Truth (Brisbane) 9 May 11/5: Think you it will stop them Monsters / Wot debauches children, sir? / [...] / Them there Beasts will have their sway / In their hell-born loathsome gambols / Splte of all the laws may say].
[UK]J. Sullivan \xe2\x80\x98Wanted\xe2\x80\x99 Only Fools and Horses [TV script] D\xe2\x80\x99you know what they\xe2\x80\x99d call me if I went in the nick? I\xe2\x80\x99d be a beast!
[UK]Observer 8 Apr. n.p.: 20 prison officers in riot uniform were observed banging their shields in unison and chanting \xe2\x80\x98Beast, beast, beast!\xe2\x80\x99.
[UK]I. Welsh Filth 89: Thir\xe2\x80\x99s loads ay beasts oan the wing, but only one in the whole ay the Scottish prison system that they call the Beast.
[UK](con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 511: So ah slips intae Albo\xe2\x80\x99s cell [...] n sees the Beast jist sittin thaire.
[UK]T. Black Artefacts of the Dead [ebook] I didn\xe2\x80\x99t get a girl for them. Look, it wasn\xe2\x80\x99t like that . . . I don\xe2\x80\x99t deal with beasts.

10. cheap beer.

[US]Eble Campus Sl. Fall 9: beast \xe2\x80\x93 Milwaukee\xe2\x80\x99s Best, inexpensive brand of beer: We only had five dollars so we bought Beast.
Online Sl. Dict. [Internet] beast n 1. any low-cost beer. Origin: the line of \xe2\x80\x98Old Milwaukee\xe2\x80\x99 beer products. (\xe2\x80\x98The college students drink beast into the night.\xe2\x80\x99).
[US]Eble Campus Sl. Apr.

11. (US campus) an expert, an outstanding example.

[US]C. Eble (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. 2011 1: BEAST \xe2\x80\x94 someone who is exceptionally good at something: \xe2\x80\x98Michael Phelps is a beast at swimming\xe2\x80\x99.

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beastly \n (adj.)\n

homosexual.

[UK]\xe2\x80\x98J.H. Ross\xe2\x80\x99 Mint (1955) 110: In the four large camps of my sojourning there have been five fellows actively beastly.
beasty \n (adj.)\n (also beastie)

1. (US campus) disgusting, repellent, unattractive.

S. Black Totally Awesome 68: Take time to laugh about the beasty hairdo on the saleswoman in the dress shop.
[UK]Thorne Dict. Contemp. Sl.
[US]Hope College \xe2\x80\x98Dict. of New Terms\xe2\x80\x99 [Internet] beastie adj. Mean, nasty, or obnoxious \xe2\x80\x93 usually in reference to a person [...] In some contexts restricted to negative judgments of female appearance.

2. (UK juv.) a general term of approbation, congratulation [on bad = good model].

OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. [Internet] beasty n. excellent, well done.
[NZ] McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.

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beast-boy \n (n.)\n (also beast-bwoy)

(UK black) a policeman.

[UK]P. Baker Blood Posse 312: The beast boys beat him up when they arrested him.
[UK]C. Newland Scholar 273: FUUUCK, IT\xe2\x80\x99S DE BEASTBWOY DEM!
beastman \n (n.)\n

(UK black) a policeman.

[UK]J. Morton Lowspeak 22: Beastman \xe2\x80\x93 a policeman.
[UK](con. 1979\xe2\x80\x9380) A. Wheatle Brixton Rock (2004) 2: Why should he make life easy for a beastman?
[UK](con. 1981) A. Wheatle East of Acre Lane 76: He searched me up like he\xe2\x80\x99s a beastman.
beastmaster \n (n.)\n [SE master; note the similarly titled \xe2\x80\x98sword and sorcery\xe2\x80\x99 film of the period]

(US campus) a man who consistently dates unattractive women.

[US] P. Munro Sl. U.

SE in slang uses

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beast-lick \n (n.)\n [SE lick, a blow]

(W.I.) a harsh, heavy blow, such as might be given to an animal.

[WI]cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).

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beast of a\xe2\x80\xa6 \n (n.)\n

applied to anything seen as unpleasant.

[UK] \xe2\x80\x98\xe2\x80\x99Arry at a Political Pic-Nic\xe2\x80\x99 in Punch 11 Oct. 180/1: Don\xe2\x80\x99t ketch me a-slinging my legs about arter a beast of a ball.
[UK]Sporting Times 18 Jan. 2/2: Monday was a beast of a day.
[US]P. White West End 419: What a beast of a wind!
[UK]Marvel 20 Oct. 366: It is a beast of a low pub.
[UK]D.L. Sayers Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1977) 224: He was in a beast of a hole.
[UK](con. c.1900s) J.B. Booth London Town 82: I\xe2\x80\x99m all right, except for a beast of a cold in my beautiful nose.
[UK]\xe2\x80\x98Charles Raven\xe2\x80\x99 Und. Nights 29: It had been a beast of a job.
food one\xe2\x80\x99s beast \n (v.)\n

to obtain sexual gratification.

[UK]Indep. on Sun. Culture 2 Apr. 14: Getting his own sexual pleasure is \xe2\x80\x98food your beast\xe2\x80\x99.
make the beast with two backs \n (v.)\n (also do the two-backed beast, make the double-backed beast) [the first cited use of the phr. is by Shakespeare, in Othello (1604); it also occurs in Fr., where Rabelais uses faire la b\xc3\xaate \xc3\xa0 deux dos]

to have sexual intercourse; thus two-backed beast n., the act of intercourse.

[UK]Shakespeare Othello I i: Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
[UK]Urquhart (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I 10: These two did oftentimes do the two-backed beast together, joyfully rubbing and frotting their bacon \xe2\x80\x99gainst one another.
[UK]C. Cotton Scoffer Scoff\xe2\x80\x99d (1765) 206: Are he and\xe2\x80\x99s Wife, if one may axe, / Making the Beast with the two Backs?
[UK]T. Brown Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 11: What other business can a man and woman have in the dark, but [...] to make the beast with two backs?
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK] \xe2\x80\x98Othello\xe2\x80\x99 in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 22: As soon as Othello came back, Iago told him a great crammer, sir [...] This thief said, that Cassio and her, / Made the beast with two backs in her chamber, O!
[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
[UK]Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 14: Faire l\xe2\x80\x99androgyne = to copulate; \xe2\x80\x98to make the beast with two backs\xe2\x80\x99.
[US]E. Field \xe2\x80\x98A French Crisis\xe2\x80\x99 in Facetiae Americana 18: And at the two-backed beast she beat the veriest whore alive.
[UK]K. Amis letter 6 Nov. in Leader (2000) 10: We certainly want to make the beast with two backs.
[US]J.S. Pennell Hist. of Rome Hanks 50: It was a long time before I could bring myself to make the double-backed beast with an Olive street whore.
[US]H.S. Thompson Hell\xe2\x80\x99s Angels (1967) 202: Several of the outlaws located a girl [...] who agreed to make the beast with two backs in a small building set apart from the main house.
[US]Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 196: The terms used for copulating [\xe2\x80\xa6] are not really euphemistic because it is implicit that no ambiguity could possibly result and, unlike euphemisms, they are, or used to be, avoided in polite, mixed company. Related to this group are the allusive [...] make the beast with two backs (Othello), go tummy-tickling, play rub-belly, match ends, get up.
[UK]J. Morton Lowspeak 142: Two-backed beast \xe2\x80\x93 the act of sexual intercourse.
[UK]L. Gould Shagadelically Speaking 119: shag, To boff. To make the beast with two backs. [...] To engage in sexual intercourse.
[US]W. Ellis Crooked Little Vein 235: You\xe2\x80\x99re not going to make the beast with two backs with the next warm body that falls in front of you.
[US]S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] If you was plannin\xe2\x80\x99 on makin\xe2\x80\x99 that funky beast with two sweaty backs [etc].
mark of the beast \n (n.)\n [the popular (male) image of the satanic vagina]

the vagina.

[UK]G. Stevens \xe2\x80\x98The Sentiment Song\xe2\x80\x99 in Songs Comic and Satyrical 126: The Nick makes the Tail stand, the Farrier\xe2\x80\x99s Wife\xe2\x80\x99s Mark].
[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
sit a beast \n (v.)\n (also sit a dago) [SE beast, a monster, i.e. the height of the car/fig. use of dago n. (1); i.e. a style preferred by Hispanics]

(US black teen/L.A.) to ride in a car that has been mechanically lifted and appears higher off the ground than normal models.

[US]E. Folb Runnin\xe2\x80\x99 Down Some Lines 120: The low-rider is like the frontier badman who is lost without his horse [...] Expressions like sitting or riding a dago or a beast reinforce the image of the man and his ride.
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