beat out verb
1: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi
beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the
competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last
football game" [syn: beat, crush, shell, trounce,
vanquish]
2: beat out a rhythm [syn: tap out, thump out]
Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
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