bodybeat

plural bodybeats

1. poeticOne's natural biological rhythm, such as a heartbeat or the cadence of one's breathing.

   Consider the effects of simple rhythm and "bodybeat sounds" on newborn infants.

   1996, David Chagall, Surviving the Media Jungle, page 4

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   Rap-tap! drums of inundation, of syncopation And a bodybeat / an ideo-beep in ideophone / A drivinghome, a drive-suite Against the eternal mattress / the clay carpet Of eternal rhythm / of divine rhyme Flowing from feet / street Into sacred fingers

   1991, Eugene Redmond, The Eye in the Ceiling: Poems, page 81

   Never mind, she is me, you— tied to that bodybeat, fainting on the rack of blood, moving to the metronome- –empty, empty, empty.

   2013, Erica Jong, Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected

   They spied her out even ass she spied them, and, bodybeat to bodybeat, she and her mother met, shaking to silent sobs and twisting hearts.

   2019, Fannie Hurst, Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl

   She takes me through her own bodybeats, showing me how she channels them into her arms and voice and weaves them into charms.

   2019, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, David Mogo Godhunter

present singular third person bodybeats · participle present bodybeating · participle past bodybeated · past bodybeated

1. To beat or pound one's body with the fists.

   Similarly, different gestures can be used for the same goal: slapping the ground and bodybeating for play.

   2014, Vyvyan Evans, The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct, page 38

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   the same gesture for several goals (touch for nursing and riding) or different gestures for the same goal (slap ground and bodybeat for play)

   2006, Simone Pika, Katja Liebal, “Differences and Similarities between the Natural Gestural Communication of the Great Apes and Human Children”, in Angelo Cangelosi, Andrew D M Smith, Kenny Smith, editor, Evolution Of Language, page 269

   Ogden and Schildkraut (1991) mention in their compilation of gorilla ethograms several auditory gestures such as backhand pound, bodybeat, chestbeat, chestpat, clap, knock, and slap surface; tactile gestures such as brush, nudge, poke, push, tag, and touch with hand; and visual gestures such as armcross, arm shake, armswing, extended palm, foot back, head shake, head turn, head twirl, and pat.

   2020, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello, The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys, page v