Definitions for Beck

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Beck beck

Spelling: [bek]

IPA: /bɛk/

Beck is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in Beck (bcek).

Definitions for Beck

noun

1. a gesture used to signal, summon, or direct someone.
2. Chiefly Scot. a bow or curtsy of greeting.
3. a brook, especially a swiftly running stream with steep banks.
4. Dave, 1894–1993, U.S. labor leader: president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters 1952–57.

Idioms

1. at someone's beck and call, ready to do someone's bidding; subject to someone's slightest wish:

verb (used with object)

1. to form (a billet or the like) into a tire or hoop by rolling or hammering on a mandrel or anvil.

verb (used with or without object)

1. Archaic. beckon.

Origin of Beck

1325-75; Middle English becken, short variant of becnen to beckon

Examples for Beck

beck is a close student of history and propaganda, and especially the history of propaganda.

Mom beck had stepped into the pantry for more eggs for the cake she was making.

What often is forgotten—and what beck could probably stand to remember—is that the massacre was, technically, a firefight.

A civilian commission overruled beck and rebuked his conclusion.

I have been at the beck and call of one of the greatest roués and villains in France.

She must also remain as young looking as ever and always be at his beck and call.

Mother won't give it him, so I have to be at his beck and call.

beck is in the same position as any post-industrial capitalist entrepreneur.

Is there a minute of my life that she is not sending for me—expecting me to be at her beck and call?

I just happen to believe it was settled in a different way than beck does.