Usually means: Escape punishment for a crime.
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  1. beat the rap: Merriam-Webster
  2. beat the rap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beat the rap: Collins English Dictionary
  4. beat the rap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. beat the rap: Wiktionary
  6. beat the rap: Dictionary.com
  7. beat the rap: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. beat the rap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. beat the rap: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (beat the rap)

verb:  (slang) To escape legal conviction and punishment for a crime which one has been charged with committing; to be acquitted.

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