1 (often in compounds) a tool used for beating things:
a carpet beater * an egg beater
2 a person employed to drive birds and animals out of bushes, etc., into the open, so they can be shot for sport
3 (AmE, informal) = BANGER
seealsoWORLD-BEATER
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