outguard noun 2verb 2forms 3 noun2 •A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy. •Anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended. verb2 •To do a better job of guarding than.He outguessed, outscored, and outguarded the Tiger, though the latter in a guard position showed that he was a real basketball man. — 1921 •To serve as an outguard at.To most of them Dong Tre was only a place somewhere other than the port that they outguarded. — 1992 formsoutguarded · outguarding · outguards