beamer

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈbiːmə(ɹ)/ (UK)
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/ˈbiːmə(ɹ)/ (UK) · /ˈbimɚ/ (US) · /ˈbiːmə/ · /ˈbimɚ/

Definition of beamer

8 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (slang)A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.
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noun

  1. (slang)A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.
  2. A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but reaches the batsman above the waist.
  3. A projector.
    “The plan can be projected on to a white board, […] or by using a beamer (data projector).”
  4. A device that projects or transmits matter, information, or energy.
    “For several days he went about his charge with disgust, trying everything he could to avoid the stench of rotting vegetation and of human feces, which was overpowering even as it all burned under the plasma from his beamer.”
  5. (informal)A big smile.
    “Get your pre-smile working, move toward him, shake hands, glue eyes […] and then launch your beamer, a big, toothy (uppers and lowers showing) grin.”
  6. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Beamer (“BMW”).
  7. (slang)A BMW car or motorcycle.
    “Some people might like to get a train to work / Or drive in, in a Beamer or a Merc”
    “Could've got the Beamer. I ain't really want it.[…]Man, I should've got the Lex. Dropped the top on em, I ain't wanna flex. Would've hit your girl, I ain't want the sex.”
  8. (slang)An employee of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
    “If those Beamers werent such assholes then Microsoft would've continued the partnership.”
    “Okay a few days have passed and the Beamers had chance to answer.”
    “Thanks to IBM's departure, housing can't sell for the high numbers that only the Beamers could afford... not the majority.”
    “"What do you mean by a 'Double Beamer'? I asked.//With a grin, he replied, "An IBM Employee driving a BMW."”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From beam (“balance beam”) + -er.

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