Walk The Beat - Longman Dictionary

English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 walk the beat From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwalk the beatwalk the beatwhen a police officer walks the beat, they walk around an area of a town or city in order to make sure nobody is committing a crime → walkExamples from the Corpuswalk the beat• Sympathetic typifications of Catholics do little to lessen the obvious problem of being attacked while walking the beat.• You'd be walking the beat and you'd see some kid with his backside hanging out of his trousers. Quizzes Quizzes

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