beat the crowd
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Verb[edit]
beat the crowd (third-person singular simple present beats the crowd, present participle beating the crowd, simple past beat the crowd, past participle beaten the crowd or (colloquial) beat the crowd)
- To go somewhere before many others do.
- 2007, Shunna Pillay, Shadow People, page 134:
- Dhava beat the crowd to the sweets counter and was back within minutes with two boxes of Black Magic chocolates, which he handed to Sharda.