beat out
v 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}, {beat out}, {crush}, {shell},
{trounce}, {vanquish}]
2: beat out a rhythm [syn: {beat out}, {tap out}, {thump out}]