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Etymology

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out- +‎ pick

Verb

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outpick (third-person singular simple present outpicks, present participle outpicking, simple past and past participle outpicked)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in picking; to pick better or faster than.
    • 2013, Sebastian Junger, A Death in Belmont, page 21:
      [] the strongest people were not necessarily the fastest; men picked cotton, women picked cotton, children as young as ten picked cotton, and occasionally a woman came along who could outpick the men.