beaut

plural beauts

1. informalSomething or someone that is physically attractive.

   That new car of yours is a real beaut.

   Synonyms: beautiful person

2. informalSomething that is a remarkable example of its type.

   Oh, yeah. She's a beaut. Looks like an oil tanker.

   2023, Sam Esmail, Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind, spoken by Clay (Ethan Hawke)

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   Bruno lifted his left hand out of the bucket in order to point out to Catfoot a lump, the size of a darning egg, over his left eye. […] "Ain't it a beaut, Cat? It's where he butted me."

   1942, Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning, published 2001, page 282

   In his most famous quip, La Guardia once remarked, “When I make a mistake it's a beaut!”

   1994, Stephen Jay Gould, Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History, page 109

   Both of them were used to long surveillance stints. This looked like it might be a beaut.

   2000, James Patterson, The Midnight Club, page 272

comparative beauter · superlative beautest

1. AustraliaespeciallyinformalBeautiful, splendid.

   Yes, it was beaut.

   1996, Madeleine St. John, A Pure Clear Light, 4th Estate, Limited

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   An' there was posies all round Jim, He had a bran new suit, The first un that he ever had, An' everything was beaut. An' when the preacher told 'bout Jim— How ' twas he got the swipe— I saw most all them dandy swells A feelin' fer a wipe.

   1895, Elbridge Kingsley, Frederick Knab, Picturesque Worcester ...: Complete in Three Parts, page 40

   It was beaut to have him home again, and gee, you should have seen the bike he bought me from Paris. From the same factory as his own was made.

   1968, James Phillip McAuley, Quadrant

   She was very motherly towards me then and it was beaut. Before I was eighteen, there just wasn't any kind words. All I wanted to do was get away from there.

   1978, Kevin Gilbert, Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert