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SHRUG
Definition of SHRUG
noun
A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge about something.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English schruggen, shrukken, probably of North Germanic origin related to Danish skrugge, skrukke (“to stoop; crouch”), Swedish skruga, skrukka (“to huddle; crouch”), all from or related to Old Norse skrykkva, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Compare also Old English scrincan (“to shrink”). More at shrink.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHRUG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SHRUG starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GHRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SHRUG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found SHRUG?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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