Beats
Beats noun - A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop).
Messes
Both words in one sentence
- Despite the fact that Alistair is chained up and Dean is fully armed, Alistair manipulates Dean, messes with his head, and eventually gets loose and beats the crap out of him.
Source: Not Afraid of You Anymore -
He gleefully messes with peoples minds, tricks them, threatens them, poisons them, blows them up or beats them up, all because he thinks its fun.
Source: Manga / Itsuwaribito - A worse example from the same book is Admiral Vorpatril, who sends a security patrol onto sovereign foreign territory to apprehend an AWOL, and messes things up when said patrol beats up a dancer and renders her unable to perform in the process of said apprehension.
Source: Ass in Ambassador
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