dry beat

English

Etymology 1

Verb

dry beat (third-person singular simple present dry beats, present participle dry beating, simple past dry beat, past participle dry beaten)

(archaic) To beat; to clobber; to thrash.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
  Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine / liues, that I meane to make bold withall, and as you shall / vse me hereafter dry beate the rest of the eight.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
  I will drie-beate you with an yron wit, / And put vp my yron Dagger.

Etymology 2

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Verb

dry beat (third-person singular simple present dry beats, present participle dry beating, simple past dry beat, past participle dry beaten)

(slang, vulgar) To masturbate without lubrication or other sexual simulation.
Come over to the party instead of just dry beating it all night!