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).
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- I Owe You My Life: Talbot to Waverly after Waverly first beats him down in a melee and then intervenes to ward off the highlander that is about to strike a finishing blow.
Source: Literature / Waverley - This is made explicit in The Movie: The schoolmaster is depicted as a puppet which the wife beats, causing it to strike the child.
Source: The Chain of Harm - He savagely beats (and nearly kills) the Vulture after seeing him strike a child, and goes out of his way to save the life of a young girl he had earlier injured during one of his schemes.
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Strike and Beats. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/beats/strike
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