beak off

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To complain.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To boast.

   • 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].
3. 3

   To yammer

   To yammer; to blab.

   • 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.
   • 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.
   • The cook had used too much of his own product and started beaking off to the wrong people.
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   1. 4

      To be truant

      To be truant; to skip school.

      • Most attend school reluctantly and some 'beak off' (play truant) regularly.
      • I beaked off school on the afternoon of one of the most important Orange marches of the year.
      • 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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