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Beat About

A usually cheap, sometimes modified vehicle, usually a Off-Roading Vehicle that can be driven recklessly to death, with the driver able to enjoy him/herself without worrying to much about damaging the vehicle except when he or she buggers the vehicle beyond repair and will need a ride home.

These vehicles can usually tend to be easily purchaseable after damaging the last one and can tend to be a good vehicle.

Some Japanese Diesal 4WD's love to be flogged and make a good trust-worthy little car, yet can easily be dented without remorse.
Onlooker- "Jesus Christ!, You completely make a pig sty of that little Isuzu!"

Driver- " No Worries, It was just a lil' beat about I purchased for 1'500 dollars just a week ago.
Beat About by Muttl-E July 26, 2009
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about to beat my shit

Bouta choke the chicken
Friend 1: “I’m about to beat my shit”
Friend 2: “can I join?”

Beataboutery 

The technique or argument of responding to an accusation of difficult argument by beating around the bush and raising irrelevant issues and arguments.
It’s time Trump stopped this BeatAboutery and addressed the core issue why he lost the elections.
Beataboutery by AJMOH February 1, 2021

Beatabout 

А person who talks about anything, but not about what is really important at the moment.
During the team meeting, the project manager became a bit of a beatabout, discussing minor details about office supplies instead of addressing the critical deadline issues.
Beatabout by Beatabout April 6, 2024
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Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
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