Complete Definition of "beachy"

English

Adjective
beachy

  1. Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.

#:1597 O God! that one might read the book of fate,
#:
And see the revolution of the times
#:Make mountains level, and the continent,
#:
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
#:Into the sea! and, other times, to see
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The beachy girdle of the ocean
#:Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock,
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And changes fill the cup of alteration
#:With divers liquors!
#::� Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV, s:The_Second_Part_of_King_Henry_the_Fourth#SCENE_I._Westminster._The_palace.|Act 3, Scene 1.

  1. Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like.

#:2004 Exporters, here's a "beachy" place to get your feet wet. It's close by, and one of the main tourist destinations in the Caribbean. � USDA site

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