beat out

verb

beat out; beaten out or beat out; beating out; beats out

transitive verb

1

: to make or perform by or as if by beating

2

: to mark or accompany by beating

3

: to turn (a routine ground ball or a bunt) into a hit in baseball by fast running to first base

Examples of beat out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

An engineering team within the Detroit automotive giant managed to push the single-charge EV range record into triple digits, beating out the ever-slippery Lucid Air GT sedan by over 300 miles (483 km) with the Silverado EV. —New Atlas, 9 Aug. 2025

And time and time again, your love of ground beef recipes reigns supreme—even beating out chicken breast recipes. —Josh Miller, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2025

And the first jet-plane builder to claim a place in the skies, beating out United States rivals like Boeing, was the British aviation company de Havilland. —Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025

Boise State received 246 points, narrowly beating out the SEC’s Oklahoma, which earned 221 points. —Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 4 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for beat out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout