big beat
noun
often capitalized both Bs
: music (such as rock) characterized by a heavy persistent beat
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Both were weaker year over year, but EPS was a big beat.
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Jim Cramer, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
And everybody in attendance seemed to enjoy the performance, bouncing along to the ample grooves and pumping their fists to the big beats.
—Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024
In the wake of the big beat, Lilly raised its 2024 revenue forecast by $3 billion to a range of $45.4 billion to $46.6 billion.
—Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) also was a big beat at 93 cents compared with the 65-cent estimate, LSEG data showed.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024
Kneecap transition with that same seamless ambition across the album’s soundscapes—a diverse terrain of U.K. garage, big beat, drum and bass, acid house, techno, and old school hip-hop, to name a few.
—Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 14 June 2024
The Memorial Day weekend tradition brought big beats and colorful fashions to the sunny riverfront, along with artists on six stages, part of a blitz of electronic music this weekend across the city at bars, clubs, popups and afterparties.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2024
Its forecast for first quarter revenue of about $24 billion was also a big beat.
—Carmen Reinicke, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
Most striking was the release of his eighth album Fuse, the lively big beat twist on country-pop that came out in 2013.
—Poppy Reid, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2021
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Jim Cramer, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
And everybody in attendance seemed to enjoy the performance, bouncing along to the ample grooves and pumping their fists to the big beats.
—Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024
In the wake of the big beat, Lilly raised its 2024 revenue forecast by $3 billion to a range of $45.4 billion to $46.6 billion.
—Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) also was a big beat at 93 cents compared with the 65-cent estimate, LSEG data showed.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024
Kneecap transition with that same seamless ambition across the album’s soundscapes—a diverse terrain of U.K. garage, big beat, drum and bass, acid house, techno, and old school hip-hop, to name a few.
—Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 14 June 2024
The Memorial Day weekend tradition brought big beats and colorful fashions to the sunny riverfront, along with artists on six stages, part of a blitz of electronic music this weekend across the city at bars, clubs, popups and afterparties.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2024
Its forecast for first quarter revenue of about $24 billion was also a big beat.
—Carmen Reinicke, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
Most striking was the release of his eighth album Fuse, the lively big beat twist on country-pop that came out in 2013.
—Poppy Reid, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2021
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“Big beat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big%20beat. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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