Outcap
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Outcap is a verb meaning (nonce word) To cap ("lie") more than.
Meaning
(nonce word) To cap ("lie") more than.
More Meanings
- (rare) To cap or top; exceed.
Example Sentences
The new myth certainly outcapped the Babeque fable, but why should they follow myths forever?
I thought myself pretty tall, but many of the Senecas, Oneidas, and Onondagas far outcapped me.
A mean remark? Certainly, but I comforted myself by saying, "Everybody does it. Outcapping everyone else is the only way to survive."
In rapping out oaths a cad outcaps a Chesterfield; scarcely bearable in a buss, oaths in type are too bad, and at such malice prepense printers' devils recoil.
Word Forms
- outcaps
- outcapping
- outcapped
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