outdraw

present singular third person outdraws · participle present outdrawing · past outdrew · participle past outdrawn

1. To extract or draw out.
2. Wild WestTo remove a gun from its holster, and fire it, faster than another.

   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)

3. To attract a larger crowd than.
4. To draw better than; to surpass in creating drawn artworks.

   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