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Any creature mighty enough to skip having a name and just be it.
means A large or dangerous animal, or, figuratively, anyone or anything formidable, brutal, or impressively powerful.
from From Latin bestia, arriving via Old French beste, which also gave English the polite-but-related brute and bestial.
Number of the beast666, biblical shorthand for ultimate menace.
Slang flipNow praise: a beast dominates, not devours.
Beast of burdenOriginally any animal forced to haul loads.