beak off

English

Verb

beak off (third-person singular simple present beaks off, present participle beaking off, simple past and past participle beaked off) (slang)

To complain.
- 2005, Adrian Michael Kelly, Down Sterling Road (page 87)
  Stop beaking off at everyone all the —
  The first pitch blows right by.
- 2016, Jean Oram, Tequila and Candy Drops
  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.
- 2018, Fran Kimmel, No Good Asking
  His dad told him to quit beaking off. We're doing this for your mom, okay. It's Christmas.
To boast.
- 1997, Ronald Mark Chambers, Three Really Nasty Plays (page 172)
  All you do is sit around, scratch your balls, rub your lucky tummy and beak off about how much money you're making!
- 2009, Stephen Schneider, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, page 178:
  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.
- 2011, John Conrad, Scarce Heard Amid the Guns: An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping (page 156)
  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].
- 2019, A. F. Henley, The Chase and the Catch
  Beaking off about how you'd never get John to crack... what the fuck does he know, right?
To yammer; to blab.
- 2019, R.W. Laidlaw, Oasis, page 234:
  No one seemed to care that a lowly trooper was beaking off during an officers' meeting: in fact, clearly everyone had been listening to him, not the other way around.
- 2019, A.F. Henley, Road Trip:
  Nobody should have known it was there, but someone obviously did. Frank or Mitch probably beaked off to the wrong person and they came sniffing around.
- 2021, Susan Hayes, Mating Fever:
  The cook had used too much of his own product and started beaking off to the wrong people.
To be truant; to skip school.
- 1996, John Sugden, Boxing and Society: An International Analysis, page 102:
  Most attend school reluctantly and some 'beak off' (play truant) regularly.
- 1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, page 49:
  I beaked off school on the afternoon of one of the most important Orange marches of the year.
- 2013, Neil Mackay, All the Little Guns Went Bang, Bang, Bang:
  Roger the Dodger is always pulling a swifty and beaking off school – covering his face in his mammy's compact powder to make himself look all ill and deathly pale; using her lippy to put red dots on himself like he's got the measles.

单词	beak off
释义	beak off English Verb beak off (third-person singular simple present beaks off, present participle beaking off, simple past and past participle beaked off) (slang) To complain. 2005, Adrian Michael Kelly, Down Sterling Road (page 87) Stop beaking off at everyone all the — The first pitch blows right by. 2016, Jean Oram, Tequila and Candy Drops 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. 2018, Fran Kimmel, No Good Asking His dad told him to quit beaking off. We're doing this for your mom, okay. It's Christmas. To boast. 1997, Ronald Mark Chambers, Three Really Nasty Plays (page 172) All you do is sit around, scratch your balls, rub your lucky tummy and beak off about how much money you're making! 2009, Stephen Schneider, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, page 178: 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. 2011, John Conrad, Scarce Heard Amid the Guns: An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping (page 156) 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]. 2019, A. F. Henley, The Chase and the Catch Beaking off about how you'd never get John to crack... what the fuck does he know, right? To yammer; to blab. 2019, R.W. Laidlaw, Oasis, page 234: No one seemed to care that a lowly trooper was beaking off during an officers' meeting: in fact, clearly everyone had been listening to him, not the other way around. 2019, A.F. Henley, Road Trip: Nobody should have known it was there, but someone obviously did. Frank or Mitch probably beaked off to the wrong person and they came sniffing around. 2021, Susan Hayes, Mating Fever: The cook had used too much of his own product and started beaking off to the wrong people. To be truant; to skip school. 1996, John Sugden, Boxing and Society: An International Analysis, page 102: Most attend school reluctantly and some 'beak off' (play truant) regularly. 1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, page 49: I beaked off school on the afternoon of one of the most important Orange marches of the year. 2013, Neil Mackay, All the Little Guns Went Bang, Bang, Bang: Roger the Dodger is always pulling a swifty and beaking off school – covering his face in his mammy's compact powder to make himself look all ill and deathly pale; using her lippy to put red dots on himself like he's got the measles.
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