beat all

verb

To outdo everything or everyone; to surpass in every way.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person beats all · participle present beating all · participle past beaten all

  1. colloquialTo outdo everything or everyone; to surpass in every way.

    Don't that beat all? You'd think money grew on trees.

    1963, Edward Streeter, Mr. Hobbs' Vacation, New York: Dramatists Play Service, page 6
    1 more example

    [advertisement] A lightning-rod man in St. Paul, / From a house had a serious fall, / Though battered and bruised, / He said, when he used / St. Jacobs Oil — it simply beats all.

    1883 February 21, Puck, New York, page 397, column 3

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
take the biscuit
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APA

beat all. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beat%20all

MLA

“beat all.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beat%20all. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beat all,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beat%20all.

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