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Definition of Outdraw
1. Verb. Draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight. "The fighter managed to outdraw his opponent"
Definition of Outdraw
1. v. t. To draw out; to extract.
Definition of Outdraw
1. Verb. To extract or draw out. ¹
2. Verb. (context: Wild West) To remove a gun from its holster, and fire it, faster than another. ¹
3. Verb. To attract a larger crowd than. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outdraw
1. to attract a larger audience than [v -DREW, -DRAWN, -DRAWING, -DRAWS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outdraw
Literary usage of Outdraw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The End of the Ages: With Forecasts of the Approaching Political, Social and by William Fishbough (1898)
"... but if any one leads and rules it is simply because it is so constituted by
nature and so developed as to be able to outshine and outdraw others. ..."
2. American Agriculturist (1846)
"... also some of your Merino sheep and Short-horned cattle, to draw logs with,
and see if they would outdraw my Bakewell steers ; and, finally, Mr. Editor, ..."
3. The American Agriculturist (1846)
"... also some of your Merino sheep and Short-horned cattle, to draw logs with,
and see if they would outdraw my Bakewell steers; and, finally, Mr. Editor, ..."
4. The Cultivator: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Agriculture by New York State Agricultural Society (1852)
"The horses and mules have both been used in hauling wood, the average load being
a cord of green oak. The heaviest pair of mules can outdraw either ..."
5. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1852)
"The heaviest pair of mules can outdraw either of the spans of horses, and are
now in as good condition as in the fall, while the horses have fallen away ..."
6. The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution by Alexander Wilford Hall (1880)
"Place a magnet an inch above the iron weight and of sufficient power to outdraw
the force of the earth's attraction, and the weight w-ould " fall " upward ..."
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