beak

1. (transitive) To strike with the beak.transitive

2. (transitive) To seize with the beak.transitive

3. (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.Examples: "Knew the Jampot well. I spent many an afternoon while I was beaking school in that fine establishment."; "I was living at home at her age, by and large doing what my parents told me, apart from beaking school."Synonyms: beak, bob, bug out, bump off, bunk, bunk off, cut class, dipNorthern-Irelandintransitive

1. (slang, British) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.Examples: "They take up men, Dick, for going about in women's clothes, and vice versaw, I suppose. You'll bail me, old fellaa, if I have to make my bow to the beak, won't you?"; "Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak."; "Thus does history repeat itself, and that foolish beak, with Tom Linden before him, was but Felix judging Paul."Britishslang

2. (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).Examples: "It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. Crawl into a boarding-house and you’re safe. A master’s life is frightfully tragic."slang