outˈjockey, v.
[out- 18 b, c.]
trans. To get the better of or overreach by adroitness or trickery.
| 1714 Macky Journ. thro' Eng. (1724) I. viii. 135 At a Horse-Match..Everybody strives to outjocky (as the Phrase is) one another. 1720 Lady Cowper Diary (1864) 139 Sunderland..has outjockeyed Walpole. 1809 W. Irving Knickerb. iv. iii. (1861) 119 Our worthy forefathers could scarcely stir abroad without danger of being outjockeyed in horseflesh. 1871 Daily News 14 Jan., She had allowed her⁓self to be out-manœuvred and out-jockeyed in statesmanship. |