outfish

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verb

To catch bigger (or more) fish than.

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Meanings

verboutfish (third-person singular simple present outfishes, present participle outfishing, simple past and past participle outfished)

present singular third person outfishes · participle present outfishing · participle past outfished · past outfished

  1. transitiveTo catch bigger (or more) fish than.

    My friend Jud has outfished me in all but one or two of the hundred times we’ve gone to the ocean and bay beaches and kettle ponds on Cape Cod. By both study and exercise, he knows the culture of striped bass better than I know my own nose.

    2009 June 28, Salvatore Scibona, “Think Like a Fish”, in New York Times

Origin

From out- + fish.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outfish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outfish.

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