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"ref": "1954 November 27, “Red Assault on Tiny Isle Beaten Off, Say Nationalists”, in The Daily Colonist, volume 96, number 294, Victoria, British Columbia, page 1, column 6",
"text": "First reports were that the Reds, in five gunboats and swarms of junks, succeeded in landing on tiny Wuchiu in Formosa Strait, but were beaten off with many captured.",
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"ref": "1968 September 16, Betty & Me, volume 16, Archie Comics, front cover",
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"ref": "2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: London Liverpool Street - Network Rail”, in RAIL, number 940, page 47",
"text": "London Liverpool Street beat off stiff competition to be highly commended in this category, despite having had no major redevelopment for three decades.",
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"(transitive, now often figurative) To drive something away with blows or military force."
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"ref": "2003, David Burke, The Slangman guide to dirty English: dangerous expressions Americans use, page 13",
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"(intransitive, idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial, chiefly US, Canada) To masturbate, usually a man of himself; to manually stimulate one's own penis."
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"ref": "2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: London Liverpool Street - Network Rail”, in RAIL, number 940, page 47",
"text": "London Liverpool Street beat off stiff competition to be highly commended in this category, despite having had no major redevelopment for three decades.",
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"(intransitive, idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial, chiefly US, Canada) To masturbate, usually a man of himself; to manually stimulate one's own penis."
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"(intransitive, idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial) To waste time."
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