n. a junky old car. I like my old beater even if it has no bumpers.
boy-beater
n. a sleeveless shirt or undershirt allegedly for women or homosexuals. (From the wife-beater.) They sat there looking macho in their tints and boy-beater.
egg-beater
1. n. an outboard boat motor. My egg-beater has been acting up, so I didn’t go out on the lake today.
2. n. a helicopter. (see also rotorhead.) The egg-beater landed on the hospital roof.
wife-beater
n. a sleeveless undershirt. (see also boy-beater.) He always wears wife-beaters with no outer shirt.
world-beater
n. an aggressive and ambitious person. They hired an alleged world-beater to manage the office.