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outstat en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + stat.

Meanings

  1. (informal, transitive) To have better statistics than.
    • Even though we were swept, we did outstat the Fast Breakers in one category: they had six technical fouls for the series (three for Bibby, two for Matthews, and one for Shouse), and we totaled nine (three each for Mannion and me, one each for Jose Slaughter, Lewis, and Lamp). 2011, Charley Rosen, Crazy Basketball: A Life In and Out of Bounds, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 216:
    • Detroit was outstatted in almost every department by a supposedly inferior Atlanta, and got a backdoor cover thanks to defensive touchdown. 1997 September 2, john harkness, “NFL WEEK TWO”, in rec.gambling.sports (Usenet):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outstats Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outstatted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outstatted Tense=Past lexicographic
outstatting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic