Usually means: Large, wild animal, often frightening.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. beast: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. beast, the beast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beast, beast: Wordnik
  7. beast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Beast, beast: Wiktionary
  9. beast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. beast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. beast: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Beast, beast, the beast: Dictionary.com
  13. beast: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. beast: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Beast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. beast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. beast: Rhymezone
  19. beast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. beast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BEAST: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. beast: Free Dictionary
  23. beast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. beast: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. beast: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. The Beast (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beast (disambiguation), The Beast, beast: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. the beast: Netlingo
  2. Beast (Bible), beast: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BEAST: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. beast: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beast: Easton Bible

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. beast, beast, beast: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Beast, The beast: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Beast, The Beast, beast (noun): Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An animal, especially a large or dangerous land vertebrate.
noun:  (chiefly in Commonwealth English, more specifically) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
noun:  (often collective) All non-human animals seen as a group.
noun:  A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
noun:  A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
noun:  (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
noun:  (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
noun:  (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
noun:  (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
noun:  A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
verb:  (British, military) To impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
verb:  (Scotland, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with, particularly in an illicit context.
adjective:  (slang, chiefly Midwestern and northeastern US) great; excellent; powerful
noun:  (biblical) A figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.
noun:  A wild, or seemingly-wild, animal that roams free in a country where it is usually only found in zoos.
noun:  (US, military, slang) A cadet's basic training at West Point.
noun:  (Internet) Acronym of Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS.

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