"beat someone round the ears" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: beats someone round the ears [present, singular, third-person], beating someone round the ears [participle, present], beat someone round the ears [past], beaten someone round the ears [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|beat<,,beat,beaten> someone round the ears}} beat someone round the ears (third-person singular simple present beats someone round the ears, present participle beating someone round the ears, simple past beat someone round the ears, past participle beaten someone round the ears)
  1. (idiomatic) To beat (a person) with blows about the head. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-beat_someone_round_the_ears-en-verb-eWyeHuP6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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