Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beak off

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English

Syllables: beak off
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Slang

verb

Slang

verb

To yammer; to blab.

Slang

verb

To be truant; to skip school.

Slang

Example Sentences

"Stop beaking off at everyone all the — The first pitch blows right by."
"She'd been an absolute bear all day yesterday--to the point where Devon had shoved her off her zip-line platform when she'd started beaking off at him for not pointing out the moose he'd seen in the first section."
"His dad told him to quit beaking off. We're doing this for your mom, okay. It's Christmas."
"All you do is sit around, scratch your balls, rub your lucky tummy and beak off about how much money you're making!"
"During a ballyhooed interview with the Toronto Daily Star, Rocco beaked off that he sometimes sold as many as one thousand cases of whiskey a day."
"When I got to them they said there was a couple of drunk Cambodian soldiers along the outside of the wire firing into the air. When I looked around the corner, I could see them drinking and beaking off [boasting]."

Etymology

* (complain; boast; yammer): Using beak as slang for a person's mouth.

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

beaks off (present, singular) beaking off (participle, present) beaked off (participle, past) beaked off (past)

Questions

What does beak off mean?: To complain.
Where does beak off come from?: * (complain; boast; yammer): Using beak as slang for a person's mouth.

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