beat to

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Etymology

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Shortening of beat to the punch.(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Verb

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beat to (third-person singular simple present beats to, present participle beating to, simple past beat to, past participle beaten to)

  1. (transitive) To arrive (somewhere) more quickly (than someone else); to succeed (at something) more quickly (than someone else).
    Zumbetel wanted to beat Yalpatel to launching the planet's first pocket-sized satellite phone.
    I wanted to gather up all the pinecones, but you beat me to it!

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