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outpicking

outpicking is the present participle and gerund of outpick.

Meaning of outpick

Verb

outpick (third-person singular simple present outpicks, present participle outpicking, simple past and past participle outpicked)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in picking; to pick better or faster than.
    • […] the strongest people were not necessarily the fastest; men picked cotton, women picked cotton, children as young as ten picked cotton, and occasionally a woman came along who could outpick the men.2013, Sebastian Junger, A Death in Belmont, page 21

Questions about outpicking

What is outpicking the present participle and gerund of?
Outpicking is the present participle and gerund of outpick.

Words near outpicking in the dictionary

  1. outphotographs
  2. outpick
  3. outpicked
  4. outpicket
  5. outpickets
  6. outpicking
  7. outpicks
  8. outpipe
  9. outpiped
  10. outpipes
  11. outpiping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outpicking (page history and authors); outpick (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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