Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

out-tarzan

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English

Syllables: out---tarzan
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To perform better than the fictional character Tarzan, especially at feats of athleticism.

Example Sentences

"One wishes to be anew Smollett; another, to out-Tarzan the chronicler of apes."
""Robin Hood" is melodrama - roistering, rowdy, swasbuckling melodrama, that brings back a whiff of the dear old pit where one sat in one's 'teens, and a taste of old peanuts as well as nostalgia, and almost forces a cheer when Errol out-Tarzan's Tarzan or plays quarter-staff with Little John."
"Mature is the husky who out-Tarzaned Tarzan in "50.000.000 B-C.""
"They are Chicago bus drivers who take to the sea on a yacht, and end up by out-tarzaning Tarzan on an uncharted south sea island populated by hundreds of beautiful girls, a platoon of villains and more wild animals than are caged in the average zoo."
"In one sense Sequoyah out-Tarzaned Tarzan; but in another sense, unlike Tarzan, he merely copied others."

Etymology

From out- + Tarzan.

Inflected Forms

out-Tarzans (present, singular) out-Tarzaning (participle, present) out-Tarzaned (participle, past) out-Tarzaned (past)

Questions

What does out-tarzan mean?: To perform better than the fictional character Tarzan, especially at feats of athleticism.
Where does out-tarzan come from?: From out- + Tarzan.

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