beasting

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of beast.

   The corporal spent the morning beasting his platoon up and down the hill.

   Beasting exhausted trainees rarely improves their performance.

   Note

   The -ing form carries both verb meanings of beast, and they differ sharply. One is the British drill sense, close to the noun for punishing exercise. The other is a Scottish slang sense of illicit sexual intercourse. To tell the verb from the noun, look for a direct object: beasting the platoon is the verb, while a session of beasting is the noun.

2. 2
   nounslangUKuncountable

   The forcing of someone to do exhausting physical exercise, given either as training or as a punishment.

   Like a coach running the whole team into the ground with drills, whether to build them up or to punish a mistake.

   The corporal threatened a session of beasting for anyone who turned up late.

   Weeks of relentless beasting turned the soft recruits into a hardened unit.

   Similardrilling

   Note

   British military slang, built plainly from beast and -ing, for punishing exercise imposed from above. It is usually a mass noun (weeks of beasting, a session of beasting), though a single ordeal can be called a beasting. It belongs to barracks talk rather than official writing. The same spelling also serves as the verb's -ing form; the noun names the regime itself.

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