Beast

Proper noun

1. A figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.
   • The Number of the Beast Is 666 (13:16-18) John's vision concludes with the notorious reference to the "mark of the beast" and the number 666. - 2000, Robert H. Smith, Apocalypse: a commentary on Revelation in words and...
2. A wild, or seemingly-wild, animal that roams free in a country where it is usually only found in zoos.
   • the Beast of Bodmin Moor
3. A cadet's basic training at West Point.
   • Plebes spend their first summer at Cadet Basic Training — Beast Barracks — where they get soldierized. - 2014, David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, page 8:
   • I was able to keep up with the herd and evade the Beast. Cadet Basic Training ended with a rigorous twenty four-hour exercise that included a twelve-mile, rite-of-passage road march to West Point […] - 2019, Conrad...