Beast

Beast can mean:-

Another name for animal, usually one that is particularly large and dangerous.
In the UK and Australia, singular form of the animal collectively referred to as cattle.
As an insult.
Slang for meaning someone is really good at something: "Toula is a beast at drawing" or "Karis is a beast with the ladies".
That someone is a person to look up to or that someone is very popular or cool: "Toula is a beast".
That something is exaggerated or filled with elements that push it beyond a level of reality: "That movie was beast (or beastly)" or "Toula is a beastly eater".
That something is particularly difficult: "That physics assignment was a beast."
Although less commonly, to describe something or someone particularly unattractive: "Karis is a beast".
Also as a verb, and usually describes when someone goes over the top with something or does something particularly good or bad: "Karis beasted at guitar."
A negative description eg. "Dean Gaffney is a megabeast 9000"
Among palaeontologists, to mean "mammal" and to translate the elements "thero-" and "-therium" in biological names.

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Beast (novel), a 1991 novel by Peter Benchley
The Beast, an autobiography of Paul Di'Anno, former vocalist of Iron Maiden
Beast, 2002 novel by Donna Jo Napoli
The Beast is the name given to an instinctual, vicious and animalistic controlling force within vampires in White Wolf's Vampire: the Masquerade and Vampire: the Requiem roleplaying games.

The Beast, a film of a soviet tank crew lost in Afghanistan in soviet invasion of 1981.

The Beast (Newspaper), a biweekly serving Buffalo, New York
Beasts (plays), a series of plays on the UK's independent TV channel in 1976
Beast (Paramount's Kings Island), a roller coaster at Paramount's Kings Island amusement park
The Great Beast, a nickname for magician Aleister Crowley
The Beast, a nickname for footballer, Jon Parkin
The Beast, a nickname for Salvatore Riina, member of the Sicilian mafia
The Beast, a nickname given to the President by Spider Jerusalem in the graphic novel Transmetropolitan
Mega-Beast 9000 , a nickname for Australias own Patriotic scapegoat, Toula Drougas
Beast Trojan written by Tataye
The Beast, an alternate name for Milwaukee's Best.
Beast was an internal project name for a MIPS processor designed to run at 666 MHz (the project was ultimately cancelled in the mid-Nineties).