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"ref": "1916, United States. Commission on Industrial Relations, Francis Patrick Walsh, Basil Maxwell Manly, Industrial relations: Final report and testimony, page 10986",
"text": "[…] and he said, \"You beat it.\" So I beat it two squares up to Seventeenth Street and went into a saloon.",
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{
"ref": "1983, Michael Jackson (lyrics and music), “Beat It”, in Thriller",
"text": "Showin' how funky and strong is your fight / It doesn't matter who's wrong or right / Just beat it",
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"To leave; to go away."
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"(idiomatic, chiefly as imperative, derogatory, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away."
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{
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"sense": "to go away",
"word": "滾！"
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"roman": "gǔn!",
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"sense": "to go away",
"word": "走開！"
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"roman": "zǒukāi!",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "走开！"
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"sense": "to go away",
"word": "skride"
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{
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"word": "skrubbe af"
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"sense": "to go away",
"word": "ophoepelen"
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"sense": "to go away",
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{
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"sense": "to go away",
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{
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{
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to go away",
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{
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"sense": "to go away",
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "häipyä"
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{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "poistua"
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{
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"sense": "to go away",
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{
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"sense": "to go away",
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{
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"code": "fr",
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{
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{
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"sense": "to go away",
"word": "se barrer"
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{
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to go away",
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{
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "se casser"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "sich packen"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "verschwinden"
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{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "vai via"
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "vattene"
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{
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"alt": "うせる",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "useru",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "失せる"
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{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "se căra"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "își lua tălpășița"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "face pași"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "proválivaj!",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "прова́ливай!"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
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"roman": "otvalí!",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "отвали́!"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "largarse"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "pirarse"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "bpai hâi pón",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "ไปให้พ้น"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "cút"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "phắn"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "xéo"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "biến"
}
]
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{
"_dis": "0 100 0",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Masturbation",
"orig": "en:Masturbation",
"parents": [
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"All topics",
"Reproduction",
"Fundamental",
"Life",
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"To masturbate, usually a man of himself."
],
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"(idiomatic, US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) To masturbate, usually a man of himself."
],
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},
{
"word": "masturbate"
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"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "打飛機"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dǎ fēijī",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "打飞机"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "honit si ho"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "runkata"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "tumputtaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "se branler"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "se pignoler"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "se taper une queue"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "se polir le chinois"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nuku",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "抜く"
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{
"_dis1": "1 98 1",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "chûai-dtuua-eeng",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "ช่วยตัวเอง"
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, it."
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"it#English"
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"word": "beat it"
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"form": "beats it",
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"singular",
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{
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"ref": "1916, United States. Commission on Industrial Relations, Francis Patrick Walsh, Basil Maxwell Manly, Industrial relations: Final report and testimony, page 10986",
"text": "[…] and he said, \"You beat it.\" So I beat it two squares up to Seventeenth Street and went into a saloon.",
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{
"ref": "1983, Michael Jackson (lyrics and music), “Beat It”, in Thriller",
"text": "Showin' how funky and strong is your fight / It doesn't matter who's wrong or right / Just beat it",
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],
"glosses": [
"To leave; to go away."
],
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"derogatory",
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[
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"leave",
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"(idiomatic, chiefly as imperative, derogatory, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away."
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"word": "beat a retreat"
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{
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{
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"To masturbate, usually a man of himself."
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"(idiomatic, US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) To masturbate, usually a man of himself."
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{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "滾！"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gǔn!",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "滚！"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "走開！"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zǒukāi!",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "走开！"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "滾開！"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gǔnkāi",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "滚开！"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "zmizet"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "vypadnout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "exemplum: Beat it! Zmiz!"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "skride"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "skrubbe af"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "Danish: smutte"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "forsvinde"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "ophoepelen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "oprotten"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "opflikkeren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "opdonderen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "ophoeren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "oplazeren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "opsodemieteren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "wegwezen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "häipyä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "poistua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "dégager"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "décamper"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "ficher le camp"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "décaniller"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "se tirer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "se barrer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "se tailler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "se casser"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "sich packen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "verschwinden"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "vai via"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "vattene"
},
{
"alt": "うせる",
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"roman": "useru",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "失せる"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "se căra"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "își lua tălpășița"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "face pași"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "proválivaj!",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "прова́ливай!"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otvalí!",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "отвали́!"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "largarse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "pirarse"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "bpai hâi pón",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "ไปให้พ้น"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "cút"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "phắn"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "xéo"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to go away",
"word": "biến"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "打飛機"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dǎ fēijī",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "打飞机"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "honit si ho"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "runkata"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "tumputtaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "se branler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "se pignoler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "se taper une queue"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "se polir le chinois"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nuku",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "抜く"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "chûai-dtuua-eeng",
"sense": "vulgar: to masturbate",
"word": "ช่วยตัวเอง"
}
],
"word": "beat it"
}
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