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out-Tarzaning

out-Tarzaning is the present participle and gerund of out-Tarzan.

Meaning of out-Tarzan

Verb

out-Tarzan (third-person singular simple present out-Tarzans, present participle out-Tarzaning, simple past and past participle out-Tarzaned)

  1. To perform better than the fictional character Tarzan, especially at feats of athleticism.
    • One wishes to be anew Smollett; another, to out-Tarzan the chronicler of apes.1926, Albert E. Bull, Authorship And Journalism, London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, page 49

Questions about out-Tarzaning

What is out-Tarzaning the present participle and gerund of?
Out-Tarzaning is the present participle and gerund of out-Tarzan.

Words near out-Tarzaning in the dictionary

  1. out-suaving
  2. out-swinger
  3. out-swingers
  4. out-Tarzan
  5. out-Tarzaned
  6. out-Tarzaning
  7. out-Tarzans
  8. out-there
  9. out-there-ness
  10. out-thereness
  11. out-threw

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out-Tarzaning (page history and authors); out-Tarzan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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