Outdrawとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

outdraw (third-person singular simple present outdraws, present participle outdrawing, simple past outdrew, past participle outdrawn)

1. To extract or draw out.
2. (Wild West) To remove a gun from its holster, and fire it, faster than another.
   • 1984, Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah" (song)

     Well maybe there's a God above, but all I've ever learned from love, was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you.

3. To attract a larger crowd than.
4. To draw better than; to surpass in creating drawn artworks.
   • 2003, Bhob Stewart, Bill Pearson, Roger Hill, Against the Grain: Mad Artist Wallace Wood, page 313:

     Certainly he could outdraw just about anybody, and he knew how to tell a story, seamlessly weaving words and pictures together.

アナグラム

• draw out, outward