out-positionv.
/ˌaʊtpəˈzɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌaʊtpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n/ transitive. In various sports and games: to gain an advantage over (an opponent) in respect of position; to place in a disadvantageous position. Also in extended use.
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > gain advantage over
out-position1928
1928 Sunday Express 24 June 21 Tilden got to everything with that long, easy stride of his, and Hunter was often outpositioned by shots that he did not expect would be returned.
1960 E. S. Higham & W. J. Higham High Speed Rugby xi. 131 The further he progresses, the more necessary it will become to out-position and out-think the opposition.
1966 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 8 June 30/2 We out-hustle them, out-position them, and in all but two games have actually out-rebounded them.
1996 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 24 Oct. b1 The battle has focused on two former allies now trying to outposition one another as more conservative.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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v.1928- make a tsimmes about
- make a tsimmes etc
- make a tsimmes over
- make a tush at
- make a tush of
- make a ugly mouth
- make a ugly mouths
- make a use of
- make a vaunt
- make a virginia fence
- make a virtue of
- make a virtue of a need
- make a virtue of necessity
- make a vow
- make a voyage
- make a waft
- make a welshman's hose of
- make a woman an honest woman
- make a woman of
- make a wonderment
- make a word like a welshman's hose
- make a work
- make a wound sound
- make a wry face or mouth
- make a wry face or mouth wry faces