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Definition of beat to phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

beat to

phrasal verb
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beat somebody to something/… | beat somebody to it
  1. to get somewhere or do something before somebody else
    • She beat me to the top of the hill.
    • I was about to take the last cake, but he beat me to it.
See beat to in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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