What is "outcheat"

Usage examples of "outcheat".

He played an hour's worth of gin rummy with Diggs—they never played for money, since neither was certain that he could outcheat the other—and, after eating a pair of hamburgers for dinner, walked over to the specialty tent and made himself comfortable in the newly constructed booth before the crowds began arriving.

Being divided up into tens or hundreds of ephemeral little squabbling empires, each always trying to outdo or outcheat its neighbors, had given them a political sophistication—or perhaps just a talent for chicanery—the Race, despite its long history, had trouble matching.