beamer

plural beamers

1. slanggymnasticsA gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.

plural beamers

1. ball gamesA ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but reaches the batsman above the waist.
2. chiefly non-native speakers' EnglishA projector.

   The plan can be projected on to a white board, […] or by using a beamer (data projector).

   2004, John Rodney Turner, Managing Web Projects, →ISBN, page 210

3. literatureA device that projects or transmits matter, information, or energy.

   For several days he went about his charge with disgust, trying everything he could to avoid the stench of rotting vegetation and of human feces, which was overpowering even as it all burned under the plasma from his beamer.

   2013, Paul Alcorn, The Rhoedraegon Chronicles: Book Two

4. informalA big smile.

   Get your pre-smile working, move toward him, shake hands, glue eyes […] and then launch your beamer, a big, toothy (uppers and lowers showing) grin.

   2005, Judsen Culbreth, The Boomer's Guide to Online Dating, page 162

plural beamers

1. Alternative letter-case form of Beamer (“BMW”).

   Synonyms: beemer, bimmer, BMW

plural Beamers · alternative beamer

1. slangA BMW car or motorcycle.

   Some people might like to get a train to work / Or drive in, in a Beamer or a Merc

   2005, “London Underground”, performed by Amateur Transplants

   1 more example

   Could've got the Beamer. I ain't really want it.[…]Man, I should've got the Lex. Dropped the top on em, I ain't wanna flex. Would've hit your girl, I ain't want the sex.

   2013 June 12, “Shoulda Woulda” (track 16), in Project Baby, performed by Kodak Black

2. slangAn employee of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

   Okay a few days have passed and the Beamers had chance to answer.

   2000 August 24, Eugene Miya, “Re: Offtopic--the IBM Watson's as bosses?”, in comp.sys.super (Usenet)

   3 more examples

   If those Beamers werent such assholes then Microsoft would've continued the partnership.

   1995 August 27, Bill Campbell, “Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...”, in alt.2600 (Usenet)

   Thanks to IBM's departure, housing can't sell for the high numbers that only the Beamers could afford... not the majority.

   2003 January 14, Shawangunk, “Re: Kingston, NY - Web Designer Wanted”, in alt.culture.ny-upstate (Usenet)

   "What do you mean by a 'Double Beamer'? I asked.//With a grin, he replied, "An IBM Employee driving a BMW."

   2012 April 12, “"Laughter, the Best Medicine @Work"”, in "Editors of Reader's Digest, editors, (Please provide the book title or journal name)