BEATER Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

beater

noun

ˈbē-tər

Definition of beater

as in crate

a dilapidated old automobile he drives a beater that just barely runs

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as in winner

one that defeats an enemy or opponent no one likes to see the beater of our team in the play-offs

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Recent Examples of beater Most of them are not, in their day-to-day lives, world beaters. — Jack Lang, New York Times, 1 July 2026 There are panel beaters, scrap metal sellers, upholsterers. — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 25 June 2026 The game followed a championship series filled with down-to-the-wire face-offs won by edge-of-your-seat buzzer beaters. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 15 June 2026 New Knicks legends There have been some amazing players and moments since 1973, like Bernard King and Patrick Ewing, John Starks' dunk over Michael Jordan in 1993, the 1994 Finals, Allan Houston's buzzer-beater, and Larry Johnson's four-point play in the run to the 1999 Finals. — Chris Scaglione, CBS News, 14 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for beater

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Noun

The atomic bomb in the crate that a helicopter carefully deposits in Carol’s driveway in the last scene?

— Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Those headlights bookend the front with a grille full of vertical slats on the Q9 and an egg-crate design swapping in on S-Line and more powerful SQ9 models.

— Joel Feder, The Drive, 29 July 2026

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Noun

Tonight’s drawing will be the 43rd in a row in search of a winner, and its prize ranks as the eighth-largest jackpot in Powerball history, according to the Multi State Lottery Association, which administers the game.

— Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
And with another Formula One weekend approaching, bringing precisely the international, high-spending and well-travelled customer this property was designed to attract, that decision looks to be a winner.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of winner

Noun

The plot of the original YouTube series began to follow the Skibidi Toilets, a conqueror race armed with futuristic weaponry and an intention to colonize the galaxy.

— Kyle MacNeill, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2026
One stronghold after another has fallen to the ruthless conqueror Nobunaga Oda—often celebrated as the first great unifier of Japan but here cast as a largely offscreen mega-villain.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026

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