beat the crowd

English

Verb

beat the crowd

  1. To go somewhere before many others do.
    • 2007, Shunna Pillay, Shadow People:
      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.
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