noun
beater
BEE-tuh
noun
1
A kitchen tool used for mixing or whipping ingredients.
"She whisked the cream with an electric beater."
2
Informally, an old, run-down car that still works.
"He drove around town in a rusty old beater."
3
In a hunting party, a person employed to drive game toward the shooters.
"The beaters worked through the woods, flushing pheasants toward the guns."
How to Use Beater
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA kitchen whisking tool, or informal slang for a battered old car.
When to use it
The "old car" sense is informal.
Word Forms
beaters plural, beaters plural
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Etymology
From Old English bēatere, "one who strikes," formed from beat + -er.