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beat it

Verb

Meaning

(idiomatic, chiefly as imperative, derogatory, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away.
Synonyms: beat a retreat, hit it; see also Thesaurus:go away

(idiomatic, US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) To masturbate, usually a man of himself.
Synonyms: beat off; see also Thesaurus:masturbate

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat,‎ it.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact. Carl Sagan

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there. Klaus Kinski

I rock a beat harder than you could beat it with rocks. Eminem

That was the universe: you could beat it once, you could float a message in a bottle across half of eternity, but the universe would always find a way to have the last laugh. Alastair Reynolds

I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it. Jack Valenti

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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