beat n.6
1. a prostitute’s client who likes to be beaten, often bringing his own equipment with him.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | gloss. in Oui mag. Aug. |
2. (US gay) a homophobic thug.
| Queens’ Vernacular 64: Generic term for those who cause homosexuals trouble [...] beats (‘Cross the street; this looks like beats coming’). |
In phrases
(also put the beats on) to hit, to assault.
 | Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 put the beat down v 1. to beat someone up, to attack. (‘If you don’t get your act together, I’ll have to put the beat down.’). | |
| Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 18: Then they really puts the beats on them and the ’mate winds up in the clinic. |