verb
Meaning 1
To extract or draw out.
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Standard Lemma guide
outdraw
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verb
Meaning 2
To remove a gun from its holster, and fire it, faster than another.
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Qualifier: Wild West
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verb
Meaning 3
To attract a larger crowd than.
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verb
Meaning 4
To draw better than; to surpass in creating drawn artworks.
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verb
Meaning 5
draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform
History
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.