Definition of "beaut" [beaut]

• Slang Something outstanding of its kind: "When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!” ( Fiorello H. La Guardia). (noun)

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• "If any synthetic stocked rifle could be called a beaut, this is it."
• "Eleonora Karpovna had most likely in her first youth been possessed of what the French for some unknown reason call beauté du diable, that is to say, freshness; but when I made her acquaintance, she suggested involuntarily to the mind a good-sized piece of meat, freshly laid by the butcher on"
• "Please promise not to tell anyone about it, but the latest CBS NY Times Poll is a real 'beaut'."