2. Verb. (transitive golf) To make a drive (stroke with a driver) farther or better than. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive archaic poetic) To drive out; to repel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outdrive
1. to drive a golf ball farther than [v -DROVE, -DRIVEN, -DRIVING, -DRIVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outdrive
Literary usage of Outdrive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Community Disaster Education Guide (1993)
"Such a statement might also imply that your values are more valid than other's
values; for example: "I think it's stupid to try to outdrive a tornado. ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1920)
"They will outdrive physical giants. Bob Gardner is said to "hit them a mile,"
but Bob is no giant in strength. He simply knows how. ..."
3. The Southern Planter (1852)
"... outdrive us, outpull us, outride us, whip us; "dive deeper and come out drier,"
as the Kentuckians say, "than any man in these par¡s. ..."
4. The Story of Media, Babylon and Persia: Including a Study of the Zend-Avesta by Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin (1888)
"Those who lie unto Mithra, however swift they may be running, cannot outrun him ;
riding, cannot outride him ; driving, cannot outdrive him. ..."
5. Bulls and Bears of New York: With the Crisis of 1873, and the Cause by Matthew Hale Smith (1874)
"Few men outdrive the Commodore, except Bonner. Horsemen say that on the road
Vanderbilt is churlish and illiberal. The story of his putting up ten thousand ..."
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