"beat someone's time" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beats someone's time",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beating someone's time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beat someone's time",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beaten someone's time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beat someone's time",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "beat<,,beat,beaten:beat􂀿colloquial􂁀> someone's time"
      },
      "expansion": "beat someone's time (third-person singular simple present beats someone's time, present participle beating someone's time, simple past beat someone's time, past participle beaten someone's time or (colloquial) beat someone's time)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, time."
      ],
      "id": "en-beat_someone's_time-en-verb-cLTYxUr0",
      "links": [
        [
          "beat",
          "beat#English"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He was trying to beat my time with my girl."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, Felix E. Alley, \"Ballad of Kidder Cole\", in Roaming the Mountains with John A. Parris, John Parris, 1955",
          "text": "I was to dance with Kidder the livelong night / But got my time beat by Charley Wright. / If I ever have to have a fight / I hope it will be with Charley Wright; / For he was the ruin of my soul / When he beat my time with Kidder Cole / (missing stanzas including one about Kidder going to South Carolina) / But she came back the following spring / And oh, how I made my banjo ring; / It helped me get my spirit right, / To beat the time of Charley Wright."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan, volume 126",
          "text": "There's a hat-check girl at that cafe — a droopy, fat little blonde — who's trying to beat my time with him. And he's falling for it, the poor baby!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Carolyn Brown, Nicole Helm, Hell, Yeah / Outlaw Cowboy",
          "text": "He said if Travis don't hurry up he's goin' to beat his time with you. We all got bets laid as to which one will get you to go on a real date first.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make advances toward someone's romantic partner."
      ],
      "id": "en-beat_someone's_time-en-verb-PnmlXEYC",
      "links": [
        [
          "advance",
          "advance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, usually with with) To make advances toward someone's romantic partner."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with with"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beat someone's time"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beats someone's time",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beating someone's time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beat someone's time",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beaten someone's time",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beat someone's time",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "beat<,,beat,beaten:beat􂀿colloquial􂁀> someone's time"
      },
      "expansion": "beat someone's time (third-person singular simple present beats someone's time, present participle beating someone's time, simple past beat someone's time, past participle beaten someone's time or (colloquial) beat someone's time)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beat",
          "beat#English"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He was trying to beat my time with my girl."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, Felix E. Alley, \"Ballad of Kidder Cole\", in Roaming the Mountains with John A. Parris, John Parris, 1955",
          "text": "I was to dance with Kidder the livelong night / But got my time beat by Charley Wright. / If I ever have to have a fight / I hope it will be with Charley Wright; / For he was the ruin of my soul / When he beat my time with Kidder Cole / (missing stanzas including one about Kidder going to South Carolina) / But she came back the following spring / And oh, how I made my banjo ring; / It helped me get my spirit right, / To beat the time of Charley Wright."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan, volume 126",
          "text": "There's a hat-check girl at that cafe — a droopy, fat little blonde — who's trying to beat my time with him. And he's falling for it, the poor baby!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Carolyn Brown, Nicole Helm, Hell, Yeah / Outlaw Cowboy",
          "text": "He said if Travis don't hurry up he's goin' to beat his time with you. We all got bets laid as to which one will get you to go on a real date first.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make advances toward someone's romantic partner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "advance",
          "advance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, usually with with) To make advances toward someone's romantic partner."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with with"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beat someone's time"
}