beat out   (TTS Sound)

The verb beat out has 2 senses

• beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish -- (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, tap out, thump out -- (beat out a rhythm)