outcrack

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To outbrag; surpass in boasting. transitive
    — 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. To surpass in cracking (a joke, a whip, etc.). transitive
    — 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. To surpass in cracking (security systems etc.). transitive
    — I can outcrack her, and on most things outhack her, but she writes better […]

词形变化

outcracks present,singular,third-person outcracking participle,present outcracked participle,past outcracked past

词源

From out- + crack.
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