beat
n.— «When officers came up empty, Ross told them Slater’s friend sold him a bag of weed that turned out to be “beat,” which is “street lingo for a counterfeit substance.”» —“The week in crime” by Chris Faraone Weekly Dig (Boston, Mass.) Mar. 23, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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