bluffout (third-person singular simple presentbluffs out,present participlebluffing out,simple past and past participlebluffed out)
- (transitive) Todeceive (someone) in order toconvince them togive up.
1856, C[aroline] A. Hayden, chapter X, inCarrie Emerson; or, Life at Cliftonville, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: James French and Company,→OCLC,page117:He really thought, however, he had heard Col. Macy speak in high terms of young Mr. Ashley as a favored suitor; and Miss Adelaide always seemed pleased with his attentions; he wouldn't bebluffed out of that, any way.
1870 July, “Advice to People about to Speculate in Wall Street”, in William B. Dana, editor,The Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review, volume63, New York, N.Y.: William B. Dana, […],→OCLC,pages34–35:There are games of cards known as "bluff" and "poker," played by the most rash and reckless gamblers, in which a player loses all his stake unless he can keep on increasing it as fast as his adversaries; and many a luckless wight has been"bluffed" out of his savings on the Stock Exchange in the same way, although his bet was really made on a winning hand.
1922 November 25,A[rthur] M[urray] Chisholm, “A Thousand a Plate”, inWestern Story Magazine, volume XXX, number 4, New York, N.Y.:Street & Smith Corporation,→OCLC, chapter II,page91, column 2:The older man eyed him for a moment balefully. "I'm goin' to set 'em again," he replied, "and don't you touch 'em. I'm goin' to trap where I durn please. There's two of you, but you don'tbluff me out, not any."
1998 August,Mason Malmuth, “A Little More Sophistication”, inWinning Concepts in Draw and Lowball, 2nd edition, Las Vegas, Nev.:Two Plus Two Publishing,→ISBN, part 8 (Psychology),page157:The more sophisticated player has recently won a pot by drawing one card to a pair of face cards and thenbluffing out his opposition.
2016, Sumit Sarkar, “Business Poker: Playing Games with Limited Information”, inOut-think!: How to Use Game Theory to Outsmart Your Competition, New Delhi:SAGE Response; Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications,→ISBN,page146:Consistent predatory pricing makes the potential entrants believe that the predator is a low-cost firm. At least, they revise their beliefs and presume that the probability of the predator being a low-cost firm is very high. In this case, if the predator is not a low-cost firm, it successfullybluffs out the potential entrants through false signalling.
to deceive in order to convince someone to give up
