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outshove en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English outaschouven, ut-ascufan, from Old English *ūtāscūfan, *ūtāscēofan (“to push out”), equivalent to out- + shove.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To shove harder or better than; outcompete by shoving
   • Then the next thing anybody knows, the Yales outshove the Harvards, and now the game is over, and Mr. Phillips Randolph gets up out of his seat, and I hear Mr. Phillips Randolph say like this: […] 1946, Damon Runyon, Guys and dolls:
   • Thereupon they not only hatch a day or So earlier than the competing egg or eggs bu eventually outshove the rival young for food. 2013, Millard C Davis, Morning on the Mountain: Adirondack Adventures:

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