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View definitions for beat it

beat it

verb as in leave hastily

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When the reporter, Sean Zittel, persisted, White cut him short: "You have a question for these two, no? Beat it."

From BBC

It’s very reliant on humidity, what’s happening outside, how much time, the window on the thermometer and how much you beat it in the mixer to whether it’s going to pour on the cake or not be able to go on the cake at all.

From Salon

He was anxious to leave — and warned visiting journalists to beat it out of town by sundown.

“It’s one of those relationships where somebody can move a certain way and you know that they don’t particularly like that, or they have another pitch or they think they can beat it.”

"I mean that fight, and that desire to defend for each other, to work hard for each other and to be hard to beat. It's so important to be hard to beat."

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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