outexecute

English

Alternative forms

• out-execute

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *úd

Proto-Germanic *ūt

Proto-Germanic *ūt-

Old English ūt-

Middle English ut-

English out-

English execute

English outexecute

From out- + execute.

Verb

outexecute (third-person singular simple present outexecutes, present participle outexecuting, simple past and past participle outexecuted)

1. (sports) To execute plays more successfully than another person or team
   • 2009 January 14, Brian Heyman, “An Unlikely Dynasty Takes Hold in the Bronx”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     "We're playing scared; we're playing soft; we're getting outexecuted and outhustled," Goodman said.