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beating it
Synonyms and Antonyms of beating it
- Let's beat it before we miss the start of the movie.
barreling (or barrelling), belting, blasting, blazing, blowing, bolting, bombing [slang], bowling, breezing, bundling, bustling, buzzing, cannonballing, careening, careering, chasing, coursing, cracking (on), dashing, driving, flying, haring, hastening, highballing, hotfooting (it), humping, hurling, hurrying, hurtling, hustling, hying (or hieing), jetting, jumping, motoring, nipping, pelting, racing, ramming, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, rustling, scooting, scurrying, scuttling, shooting, speeding, stepping, tearing, traveling (or travelling), trotting, whirling, whisking, zipping, zooming
- They beat it out of there when the cops showed up.
absconding, clearing out, decamping, eloping, escaping, getting (away), getting out, lamming, lighting out, making off, mizzling [chiefly British], scarpering [British], scatting, scramming, skipping (out), skirring
- She grew bored of her hometown and decided to beat it.
bailing, bailing out, booking [slang], buggering off [British slang], bugging off, bugging out, buzzing (off), clearing off [chiefly British], clearing out, cutting out, departing, digging out, exiting, getting, getting off, going, going off, moving, packing (up or off), parting, peeling off, piking (out or off), pulling out, pushing off, pushing on, quitting, running along, sallying (forth), scarpering [British], shoving (off), stepping (along), taking off, vamoosing, walking out
setting out, starting, striking out
absconding, decamping, escaping, evacuating, fleeing, flying, getting out, mizzling [chiefly British], running away, scatting, scramming, skipping
going out, lighting out, stepping out
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