outcrack

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English

Etymology

From out- +‎ crack.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To outbrag; surpass in boasting.
    • 1816, Old plays: being a continuation of Dodsley's collection:
      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,
  2. (transitive) To surpass in cracking (a joke, a whip, etc.).
    • 2007, Ruth Laughlin, Caballeros:
      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.
  3. (transitive, computing) To surpass in cracking (security systems etc.).
    • 2007, Kelly McCullough, Cybermancy:
      I can outcrack her, and on most things outhack her, but she writes better []

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