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Meaning of outcrack | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To outbrag; surpass in boasting.
    transitive
  2. To surpass in cracking (a joke, a whip, etc.).
    transitive
  3. To surpass in cracking (security systems etc.).
    transitive

Examples

“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, […]”
“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.”
“I can outcrack her, and on most things outhack her, but she writes better […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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