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outdraw

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.

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry outdraw (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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