Definition of puttin' the beat down

put the beat down    

verb

• to beat someone up, to attack. Also give a beat down.

  If you don't get your act together, I'll have to put the beat down.

  If you don't get your act together, I'll have to give you a beat down.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to attack, to fight.

  Last edited on Mar 15 1998. Submitted by Roni from San Jose, CA, USA on Mar 15 1998.

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Other terms relating to 'to attack, to fight':
bing pow	Definitions include: intravenous drug bell ringer.
beat the hell out of	Definitions include: to violently beat.
beat down	Definitions include: a fight or severe beating.
tune up	Definitions include: a beating.
want a piece of	Definitions include: to desire someone physically.
ball up	Definitions include: to beat someone until they enter the fetal position (their body forming a tight ball.)
rock	Definitions include: to be great, exciting, or fun.
jump	Definitions include: to engage in intimate physical contact, usually intercourse. Also jump (one's) bones.
throw down	Definitions include: to fight.
jack up	Definitions include: to break or ruin.
take out	Definitions include: to injure or destroy.
Barney	Definitions include: the police.
wreck	Definitions include: to severely beat up or injure.
bring it	Definitions include: an invitation for a competition, such as a fight, game, etc.
take down	Definitions include: to defeat.
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Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'beat':
bad beat	Definitions include: a disappointing event.
BBE	Definitions include: acronym of "Biggest Beating Ever," which can refer to "beating" as in a severe physical attack, or a severe defeat e.g. in a competitive sport.
beat	Definitions include: lacking excitement or people; "boring".
beat a dead horse	Definitions include: to bring up a subject that was resolved (or should have been resolved) long ago.
beat all to hell	Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
beat around the bush	Definitions include: to delay in getting to the point.
beat cakes	Definitions include: to engage in doggy-style sex.
beat cheeks	Definitions include: to leave quickly; "haul ass".
beat down	Definitions include: a fight or severe beating.
beater	Definitions include: unattractive or undesirable.
beat feet	Definitions include: to hurry, hustle, esp. when departing.
beat into a pulp	Definitions include: to physically beat someone causing extensive injury.
beat it	Definitions include: to masturbate.
beat it up	Definitions include: for a male to have sexual intercourse.
beat off	Definitions include: to masturbate.
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Other terms relating to 'down':
batten down the hatches	Definitions include: to prepare for hardship.
beat down	Definitions include: a fight or severe beating.
bout to put the beat down	Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up.
bow down	Definitions include: to back down from a situation.
bow down before the porcelain god	Definitions include: to vomit into a toilet.
bow down to the porcelain god	Definitions include: also "bow down to the white porcelain god."
bring down	Definitions include: to sadden one.
bring the house down	Definitions include: to greatly impress a crowd.
broke down	Definitions include: unattractive.
bust down	Definitions include: a person who has oral sex and intercourse with multiple people.
butter down	Definitions include: to knuckle down; to submit to; to melt down; to be unable to take the heat; to give in.
buttoned-down	Definitions include: overly formal, conservative.
chow down	Definitions include: to eat.
come down	Definitions include: to give someone oral sex.
cool down	Definitions include: to stop being angry.
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Other terms relating to 'put':
bout to put the beat down	Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up.
PIIYB	Definitions include: acronym for "put it in your butt".
pu put b*tch	Definitions include: a pimp's primary prostitute.
put	Definitions include: place down
put a cork in it	Definitions include: to be quiet; "shut up".
put all of (one's) eggs in one basket	Definitions include: to risk everything on a single unlikely event.
put a pin in	Definitions include: to delay a topic until a future time.
put a sock in it	Definitions include: to be quiet.
put away	Definitions include: to incarcerate.
put down	Definitions include: to kill an animal, usually due to injury, sickness, or disease.
put down some brown	Definitions include: to defecate liquid feces.
put in (one's) place	Definitions include: to deflate someone's over-inflated ego.
put in the buck	Definitions include: see in the buck.
put it	Definitions include: to swear, to promise that something you have done happened.
put lead in (one's) pencil	Definitions include: make one stronger.
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Other terms relating to 'the':
101 scoop, the	Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
2-10, the	Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
3rd degree, the	Definitions include: interrogation.
3 sheets to the wind	Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
411, the	Definitions include: information.
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.	Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
about the size of it	Definitions include: a good estimate.
ace in the hole	Definitions include: a secret advantage.
across the board	Definitions include: inclusive.
add fuel to the fire	Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
against the clock	Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
ahead of the curve	Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
aim Archie at the adamant	Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
ain't no fun when the rabbit got the gun	Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
a little on the side	Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.
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