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outcracking

outcracking is the present participle and gerund of outcrack.

Meaning of outcrack

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

Questions about outcracking

What is outcracking the present participle and gerund of?
Outcracking is the present participle and gerund of outcrack.

Words near outcracking in the dictionary

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

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