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outsnob en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + snob.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To surpass in snobbery; to be snobbier than.
   • File the term in this clue — “What a zythophile loves” — under how to outsnob a self-described oenophile when you prefer BEER. 2023 May 12, Caitlin Lovinger, “Place for Reactions and Solutions”, in The New York Times:
   • Some of these types also outsnobbed British students in looking down at some of their fellow Rhodes Scholars – those who were not from the “good” universities back home or who refused to smooth their rough American edges while in Britain. 2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 50:

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