overcompensate

present singular third person overcompensates · participle present overcompensating · participle past overcompensated · past overcompensated

1. intransitiveTo do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
2. transitiveTo provide with excessive pay or reward for work performed.
3. humorousTo act in a way perceived as insecure about one's masculinity or a supposedly small penis (especially, by buying or using a large object).

   In 1973, Lee Iacocca was the president of Ford. Among his other achievements, Iacocca had invented the Ford Mustang, and had thus became the patron saint of overcompensating men across the Western world.

   2015 June 15, Britni Patterson and Mordecai Jones, “5 Geniuses Ridiculed And Fired For Being Right Too Soon”, in Cracked