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Examples of beater in a Sentence
driving a rusty old beater
he drives a beater that just barely runs
Recent Examples of beater from the Web
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The madman runs through 15 absolute beaters in a quick 15 minutes.
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The most memorable game was in 2016, when Jake Ramsey’s 88-foot buzzer-beater forced overtime before Trinity won 67-62.
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In New York City, that meant uncompromising pursuit of wrongdoers, from prostitutes and street-corner drug dealers to fare-beaters in the subways.
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The sport waited through decades of the buzzer-beaters and bracket-busters for the one result that seemed too insane even for the event known as March Madness.
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When that time comes, hit play on 4B's latest beater.
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In basketball, Schobert was a two-time All-Conference selection and memorably hit an off-balanced buzzer beater to down Arrowhead in a 2011 sectional semifinal.
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After Toronto tied the game with 8 seconds left, LeBron James hit a buzzer beater to give the Cavs a 105-103 victory.
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Like after LeBron James made a huge defensive stop and then hit a game-winning buzzer-beater.
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First Known Use of beater
14th century
BEATER Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of beater for English Language Learners
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: a device or tool that is used for beating something
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: someone who repeatedly hits another person
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: an old car that is in poor condition
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