outcrack

present singular third person outcracks · participle present outcracking · participle past outcracked · past outcracked

1. transitiveTo 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, […]

   1816, Old plays: being a continuation of Dodsley's collection

2. transitiveTo 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.

   2007, Ruth Laughlin, Caballeros

3. transitivecomputingTo surpass in cracking (security systems etc.).

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

   2007, Kelly McCullough, Cybermancy