1. [noun] Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
2. [noun] (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
3. [noun] A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
4. [noun] (slang) A large and impressive thing or structure.
5. [noun] (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
6. [noun] (slang) (prisons) A sex offender.
7. [noun] (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
8. [verb] (British) (military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
9. [adjective] (slang) great; excellent; powerful
10. [noun] A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
11. [noun] A cruelly rapacious person.
12. [proper noun] (biblical) A figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.
13. [proper noun] A wild animal, or seemingly so, which roams free in a country it is usually only found in zoos. (For example The Beast of Bodmin Moor).
