outdraw

The English word “outdraw” has 4 meanings listed here.

verb

To extract or draw out.
To remove a gun from its holster, and fire it, faster than another.
To attract a larger crowd than.
To draw better than; to surpass in creating drawn artworks.

Etymology

From Middle English outdrauen, outdrawen, from Old English ūtdragan, from Proto-Germanic *ūtdraganą. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutdreege, West Frisian útdrage (“to carry out”), Dutch uitdragen (“to carry out”), German austragen (“to deal with; deliver”), Icelandic útdraga (“to extract; draw out”). By surface analysis, out- + draw.

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