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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. 18...
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out- in comb. is used with substantives, with verbs and their derivatives, and with other adverbs. In OE. {uacu}t adv. was already prefixed (1) to ordinary ns. in the sense ‘that is without’, ‘out-lying’, ‘external’, as in {uacu}tland a country that is out, a distant or foreign land, {uacu}there an ...
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