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Outdraw

Outdraw \Out*draw"\, v. t. To draw out; to extract. [R.] ``He must the teeth outdraw.''
--Gower.

Wiktionary
outdraw

vb. 1 To extract or draw out. 2 (context Wild West English) To remove a gun from its holster, and fire it, faster than another. 3 To attract a larger crowd than.

WordNet
outdraw
  1. v. draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight

  2. [also: outdrew, outdrawn]

Usage examples of "outdraw".

Never mind that she could outdraw, outshoot, and probably outfight the guy, for all the difference in their sizes.

Others, thinking themselves able to draw like lightening, were dead because they tried to outdraw someone who had them covered.

If he stays in one place too long, people recognize him, then some fool decides he can outdraw him and calls him out.

The blue man took one last look at all the posters of all the gunfighters who knew no one could outdraw them.

Ben Pryor and Abe Bernstein sat in a small, unobtrusive booth at the back of the huge room, sipping a pair of Water Witches and watching the unpaid clowns outdraw the professional ones.

Sam held a gun trained on you, you might or might not have been fast enough to outdraw him.

The crossbow was not as quick as a longbow, and Kith, using one of the stirrup-drawn wooden bows, could outdraw me even with only one arm.

I broke into her, and she whined and lay for a moment like a rabbit wounded in a trap under my convulsive thrusts no longer to be considered, but at the last moment she too thrust herself up against me, crucified, with a long silent scream, a whistling of outdrawn breath, and I felt the cataclysm shake her to pieces as I was dying on her breast.

Pa is tilting snuff from the lid of his snuff-box into his lower lip, holding the lip outdrawn between thumb and finger.

Margo went out through the front alley to hunt for the cloaked figure that she should have realized could not be found in darkness, when she ran into an old friend - or enemy, providing how you felt about somebody who had outdrawn you in a trifling matter of one hundred thousand dollars.

Ben Pryor and Abe Bernstein sat in a small, unobtrusive booth at the back of the huge room, sipping a pair of Water Witches and watching the unpaid clowns outdraw the professional ones.