Definition of beat out Beat out

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What does beat out mean?

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Verb

beat out - beat out a rhythm
  tap out, thump out
  beat 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"
beat out - 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"
  beat, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
  get the better of, defeat, overcome win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
  outscore, outpoint score more points than one's opponents
  walk over beat easily; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship"
  eliminate kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
  worst, mop up, pip, rack up, whip defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"
  whomp beat overwhelmingly
  get the best, have the best, overcome overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
  spreadeagle, rout, spread-eagle cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves"
  get the jump be there first; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors"
  chouse, chicane, shaft, jockey, cheat, screw equip with a shaft
  outwit, outfox, outsmart, overreach, circumvent, beat beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
  outgo, outmatch, outperform, outdo, outstrip, exceed, surmount, surpass get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
  get over, master, overcome, surmount, subdue to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end; "Let's get this job over with"; "It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task"
  best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
  outfight to fight better than; get the better of; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans"
  overmaster, overpower, overwhelm overcome by superior force
  checkmate, mate place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"
  immobilise, immobilize cause to be unable to move; "The sudden storm immobilized the traffic"
  outplay excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers"
  drub, clobber, lick, bat, cream, thrash strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
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  • beat out (Verb)
    To sound a rhythm on a percussion instrument such as a drum.
  • beat out (Verb)
    To extinguish.
  • beat out (Verb)
    To win by a narrow margin.

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  • beat out
    To end in success a struggle or contest.

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