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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outcool en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + cool.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To surpass in cool; to be more cool (hip, fashionable, etc.) than.
    • While many Blacks are cool, and some—such as Miles Davis and Dave Chappelle—are cool enough to outcool entire other ethnicities all by themselves, not all Blacks are cool. 2009, Kevin Hechinger, Curtis Hechinger, Hechinger's Field Guide to Ethnic Stereotypes, page 12:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outcools Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outcooling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outcooled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outcooled Tense=Past lexicographic