outdraw
Verb
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Verb
outdraw (outdraws, present participle outdrawing; past outdrew, past participle outdrawn)
- To extract or draw out.
- (Wild West) To remove a gun from its holster, and fire it, faster than another.
- 1984, Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah" (song)
- Well maybe there's a God above, but all I've ever learned from love, was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you.
- 1984, Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah" (song)
- To attract a larger crowd than.
- To draw better than; to surpass in creating drawn artworks.
- 2003, Bhob Stewart, Bill Pearson, Roger Hill, Against the Grain: Mad Artist Wallace Wood (page 313)
- Certainly he could outdraw just about anybody, and he knew how to tell a story, seamlessly weaving words and pictures together.
- 2003, Bhob Stewart, Bill Pearson, Roger Hill, Against the Grain: Mad Artist Wallace Wood (page 313)
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