outintellectual

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outintellectual (third-person singular simple present outintellectuals, present participle outintellectualing, simple past and past participle outintellectualed)

  1. (transitive, rare) to surpass (someone) in being intellectual
    • 1972, Fritz the Cat (film)
      You think learning is a big thing, and you become a big fucking intellectual, and sit around trying to outintellectual all the other big fucking intellectuals.
    • 2012 March 24, ulticritic, “Re: The US Open is a Bad Idea”, in rec.sport.disc[1] (Usenet), message-ID <dc6b59ed-40b2-49f3-aa3f-e01311b04878@q11g2000vbu.googlegroups.com>:
      > Correlation doesn't imply
      > causation... but it sure as hell doesn't rule it out,
      > either.
      there ya go again trying to outintellectual yourself