beak /biːk/noun 17verb 3forms 3phrases 2 noun17 •A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc. •A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc. •The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. •(slang) A person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed."You mind your own business, curse you!" growled Silas. "I've told you before now not to push that long, sheeny beak of yours into my affairs. If you was a man I'd know better how to speak to you." — 1925 •The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. •The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. •Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. •Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.At the townes end, Cuddenbeak, an ancient house of the Bishops, from a well aduanced Promontory, which intituled it Beak — 1609 •A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. •That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. •A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy. •(UK, slang) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.They take up men, Dick, for going about in women's clothes, and vice versaw, I suppose. You'll bail me, old fellaa, if I have to make my bow to the beak, won't you? — 1859 •(slang) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton). •(slang) A person's mouth.Shut your beak! •(slang) Cocaine. •Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads. •A toe clip. verb3 •To strike with the beak. •To seize with the beak. •(Northern-Ireland) To play truant.Knew the Jampot well. I spent many an afternoon while I was beaking school in that fine establishment. — 2008 formsbeaked · beaking · beaks Phrases with beak beak offTo complain. wet one's beakTo drink a beverage.
