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beaut

[ byoot ]

noun

Informal.
  1. (often used ironically) a person or thing that is beautiful, remarkable, or amazing: The storm is coming, and it’ll be a beaut!

    I've dated some beauts in my time.

    The storm is coming, and it’ll be a beaut!



beaut

/ ː /

noun

  1. a person or thing that is outstanding or distinctive
  2. a kind, friendly, or trustworthy person
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adjective

  1. good or excellent
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

interjection

  1. Alsoyou beaut! an exclamation of joy or pleasure
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of beaut1

An Americanism first recorded in 1865–70; by shortening of beauty
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He first saw the ship in October 1941 resting at anchor in Pearl Harbor, and what a beaut — long and towering, capable of 20 knots, with a complement of 1,200 sailors.

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As rants go this one's a real beaut, such a furnace blast that another student records it on her phone and quickly circulates it through the campus.

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I visited Rodriguez with the hopes of seeing a rusty bumper transform into a shimmering beaut.

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“When I make a mistake, it’s a beaut.”

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He took the drop in the straw outside the hostile foliage and whacked a beaut from 255 yards almost directly at the pin.

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