outshake

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ shake

Verb[edit]

outshake (third-person singular simple present outshakes, present participle outshaking, simple past outshook, past participle outshaken)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in shaking; to shake more or better than.
    • 1952, Jet, volume 2, number 16, page 65:
      The Baby Grand Cafe is offering Rose Hardaway $1,500 to dance against La Bommie for the title of "Shake Dance Queen of '52." Bets are 7-5 that Bommie can outshake her.
    • 1988, Peggy O'More, Seacliff Nurse, page 152:
      “She may even match them ; be fun to see which could outshake the other.”