outcrack

verb

Etymology

From out- + crack.

  1. derived from *gerh₂-
  2. inherited from *krakōn — “to crack, crackle, shriek
  3. inherited from cracian
  4. inherited from crakken
  5. prefixed as outcrack — “out + crack

Definitions

  1. To outbrag

    To outbrag; surpass in boasting.

    • 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. To surpass in cracking (a joke, a whip, etc.).

    • 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. To surpass in cracking (security systems etc.).

    • I can outcrack her, and on most things outhack her, but she writes better […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for outcrack. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA