Definitions

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  • verb transitive To punch harder or better than.

Etymologies

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out- +‎ punch

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Examples

  • A warrior with some-more reach than many middleweights, a 6-foot-6 Kendall Grove (fighting out of Maui, Hawaii) has used his size to outpunch as well as exist a little of a divisions toughest fighters.

    UFC Confirms Remaining Bouts For UFC 106 - [Blog] admin 2009

  • A warrior with some-more reach than many middleweights, a 6-foot-6 Kendall Grove (fighting out of Maui, Hawaii) has used his size to outpunch as well as exist a little of a divisions toughest fighters.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • I made up my mind to knock him out and did about the dumbest thing you can do against a guy who is bigger, stronger and younger than you and outweighs you by thirty pounds: I moved inside and tried to outpunch him.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • I made up my mind to knock him out and did about the dumbest thing you can do against a guy who is bigger, stronger and younger than you and outweighs you by thirty pounds: I moved inside and tried to outpunch him.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • I made up my mind to knock him out and did about the dumbest thing you can do against a guy who is bigger, stronger and younger than you and outweighs you by thirty pounds: I moved inside and tried to outpunch him.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • Since Superman usually starts off a fight slow because he doesn't know how much his opponent can take, if Thor is arrogant and underrates Superman, just trying to outpunch him, he'll leave himself open to get flattened assuming, as I do, that Superman is stronger, tougher, and faster.

    Thor vs Superman - who ya got? David Campbell 2007

  • Yet there is still an expectation that as a player levels in a MMOG they should be able to go toe to toe against tougher and tougher monsters in a slug fest, until eventually they can outpunch bull elephants.

    Magic 2005

  • "Even though Disney is a small player, they outpunch their weight by the fact they have a strong known brand."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "Even though Disney is a small player, they outpunch their weight by the fact they have a strong known brand."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "Even though Disney is a small player, they outpunch their weight by the fact they have a strong known brand."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

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