outdig
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English
Etymology
Verb
outdig (third-person singular simple present outdigs, present participle outdigging, simple past and past participle outdug)
- (transitive) To dig better or faster than another.
- 2019 September 27, Greg Jones, “Andrew Yang’s UBI: A Universally Bad Idea”, in The American Spectator[1]:
- A more American version exists in the legend of John Henry, the “steel-driving man” who dropped dead attempting to prove that he could outdig a machine.