outcrack

outcrack

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ crack.

Verb

outcrack (third-person singular simple present outcracks, present participle outcracking, simple past and past participle outcracked)

1. (transitive) To outbrag; surpass in boasting.
   • 1816, Old plays: being a continuation of Dodsley's collection:

     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. (transitive) To surpass in cracking (a joke, a whip, etc.).
   • 2007, Ruth Laughlin, Caballeros:

     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. (transitive, computing) To surpass in cracking (security systems etc.).
   • 2007, Kelly McCullough, Cybermancy:

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