outcaps
outcaps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outcap.
Meaning of outcap
Verb
outcap (third-person singular simple present outcaps, present participle outcapping, simple past and past participle outcapped)
- To cap or top; exceed.
- I ſhall only inſtance in the Quakers, who of all People in the World apply themſelves moſt to the Reading of Scriptures: nay there is ſcarce a Quaker Woman, but ſhall outcap the ableſt Divine of any other Religion in Scripture Texts.1721, Robert Manning, A Plain and Rational Account of the Catholick Faith, page 111
- To cap ("lie") more than.
- A mean remark? Certainly, but I comforted myself by saying, "Everybody does it. Outcapping everyone else is the only way to survive."1990, Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 49
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