browbeat

to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech

Heard in 2 songs (369K+ combined views) — most famously in "The Murder Mystery" by The Velvet Underground.

Updated September 26, 2026

Songs Featuring “browbeat”

The Velvet Underground - The Murder Mystery

Time: 5:05

Bluebelly catalog, questionable earnings, hustler's lament and the rest will in due cry (But to skewer and ravage and savage and split)

To battle and scramble and browbeat and hurt while chewing on minstrels and choking on dirt (With the grace of a diamond, bellicose wit)

Disease please seems the order of the day, please the king, please the king, please the king day (To stun and to stagger with words as such stone)

The Velvet Underground - The Murder Mystery

Lavender Country - Georgie Pie

Time: 0:52

Control yourself with misery and confusion

Let your mother's ghost browbeat you

Let the goblins in to greet you

Lavender Country - Georgie Pie