Beatles
English
The Beatles
Etymology
Originally spelled Beatals, punningly referencing the expression beat all (“surpass everything”), then later altered to Beatles, blend of beat + beetles, with beat referring to "beat music" or the "beat" of a drum, and beetles inspired by the contemporaneous band name The Crickets.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbiːtl̩z/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbiːtl̩z/, [ˈbiːɾɫ̩z]
- Homophone: beetles
Proper noun
The Beatles pl (plural only)
- An extremely successful and influential British rock music quartet that operated primarily in the 1960s.
- Synonym: Fab Four
Derived terms
- Beatle
- Beatle boot
- Beatle cut
- Beatledom
- Beatlehead
- Beatle-ish
- Beatle-less
- Beatlelike
- Beatlemania
- Beatlemaniac
- Beatleness
- Beatles-like
- Beatlesque
- Beatley
- pre-Beatles
- the Fifth Beatle
Translations
rock music quartet
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References
- Greg Metzer, Rock Band Name Origins (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co.) 2008.
- Kenneth Womack, The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four (Santa Barbara: Greenwood) 2017.
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