outdraw

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11
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12
Letters
7

Definition of outdraw

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To extract or draw out.
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verb

  1. To extract or draw out.
  2. To remove a gun from its holster, and fire it, faster than another.
    “Well maybe there's a God above, but all I've ever learned from love, was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you.”
  3. To attract a larger crowd than.
  4. To draw better than; to surpass in creating drawn artworks.
    “Certainly he could outdraw just about anybody, and he knew how to tell a story, seamlessly weaving words and pictures together.”

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Etymology

From Middle English outdrauen, outdrawen, from Old English ūtdragan, from Proto-Germanic *ūtdraganą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutdreege, West Frisian útdrage (“to carry out”), Dutch uitdragen (“to carry out”), German austragen (“to deal with; deliver”), Icelandic útdraga (“to extract; draw out”). By surface analysis, out- + draw.

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