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outcrack

outcrack verb: to outbrag; surpass in boasting.

Verb

outcrack (third-person singular simple present outcracks, present participle outcracking, simple past and past participle outcracked)

  1. (transitive) To outbrag; surpass in boasting.
    • Alas, my miserable master, what suds art thou wash'd into; thou art born to be scorn'd of every carted community, and yet he'll outcrack a German when he is drunk, or a Spaniard after he hath eaten a Fumatho, […]1816, Old plays: being a continuation of Dodsley's collection
  2. (transitive) To surpass in cracking (a joke, a whip, etc.).
    • As a final touch, each wagoner tied a fine new cracker to his whip to outcrack his comrades as they dashed around the Plaza in a hilarious, triumphal entry.2007, Ruth Laughlin, Caballeros
  3. (transitive) To surpass in cracking (security systems etc.).
    • I can outcrack her, and on most things outhack her, but she writes better […]2007, Kelly McCullough, Cybermancy

Forms of outcrack

third-person singular presentoutcracks
present participleoutcracking
past participleoutcracked
pastoutcracked

Origin of outcrack

From out- + crack.

Questions about outcrack

What does outcrack mean?
Outcrack means to outbrag; surpass in boasting.
What part of speech is outcrack?
Outcrack is a verb.
What is the past tense of outcrack?
The past tense of outcrack is outcracked.

Words near outcrack in the dictionary

  1. outcoupling
  2. outcourt
  3. outcourted
  4. outcourting
  5. outcourts
  6. outcrack
  7. outcracked
  8. outcracking
  9. outcracks
  10. outcraftied
  11. outcrafties

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