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outcooling

outcooling is the present participle and gerund of outcool.

Meaning of outcool

Verb

outcool (third-person singular simple present outcools, present participle outcooling, simple past and past participle outcooled)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in cool; to be more cool (hip, fashionable, etc.) than.
    • While many Blacks are cool, and some—such as Miles Davis and Dave Chappelle—are cool enough to outcool entire other ethnicities all by themselves, not all Blacks are cool.2009, Kevin Hechinger, Curtis Hechinger, Hechinger's Field Guide to Ethnic Stereotypes, page 12

Questions about outcooling

What is outcooling the present participle and gerund of?
Outcooling is the present participle and gerund of outcool.

Words near outcooling in the dictionary

  1. outcooked
  2. outcooking
  3. outcooks
  4. outcool
  5. outcooled
  6. outcooling
  7. outcools
  8. outcorner
  9. outcornered
  10. outcornering
  11. outcorners

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