outdraw
Verb

outdraw (outdraws, present participle outdrawing; past outdrew, past participle outdrawn)

  1. To extract or draw out.
  2. (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.
  3. To attract a larger crowd than.
  4. 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.



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