Definitions for becks

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Spelling: [bek]

IPA: /bɛk/

Becks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in becks (bceks).

Definitions for becks

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 becks

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

Examples for becks

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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