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beam
1. informal One's hips and buttocks; one's backside. Said especially of women. (A reference to the breadth of a ship at its widest point.) I've always been attracted to women who are fairly broad in the beam. She had a very pleasant face, though she was a bit narrow in the beam for my liking.
2. informal A small but steadfast amount or source (of something hopeful or positive). My lovely daughter has been a beam of joy in such a trying year of hardship. The charity is the sole beam of comfort to the many people displaced by war who have been reduced to such squalid conditions.
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beam
verbSee I-beam
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- a beam in your eye
- a beam of (something)
- be broad in the beam
- be off beam
- be way off beam
- beam
- beam down
- beam in (one's) eye
- Beam me up, Scotty
- Beam me up, Scotty!
- beam up
- beam with pride
- beam/grin/smile from ear to ear
- beaming
- broad across the beam
- broad in the beam
- broad-beamed
- early beam
- early beams
- I-beam
- off beam
- off the beam
- on (one's) beam-ends
- on the beam
- on the beam-ends
- on your beam ends
- steam (one's) beam
- steam beam
- steam someone's beam