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loser

[ loo-zer ]

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noun

a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
The visiting team was the loser in the series.
Informal.
1. a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor or, especially, a felony:
  a two-time loser.
2. a person who has failed at a particular activity:
  a loser at marriage.
3. someone or something that is marked by consistently or thoroughly bad quality, performance, etc. ( winner def 2 ):
  Don't bother to see that film, it's a real loser.
Slang. a misfit, especially someone who has never or seldom been successful at a job, personal relationship, etc.

loser

/ ˈluːzə /

a person or thing that loses
a person or thing that seems destined to be taken advantage of, fail, etc
a born loser
bridge a card that will not take a trick

Origin of loser¹

1300–50; Middle English losere destroyer; lose, -er ¹

In rambling posts, he called himself a loser, and wrote that he must be either bipolar or a psychopath.

The Affordable Care Act was always a short-term political loser with respect to middle-class voters.

One time I remember taking a walk and a guy drove past with his window down and yelled, ‘Hey loser, get a car!’

This is a fight that immigration reform advocates believe is a loser for the GOP.

“When I first met du Pont, I thought he was the biggest loser on Earth,” Mark recently told People.

All three of themJess, Griff, and the excited loser of the pursereached for the umbrella; but Griff was the first.

You shall not be the loser, Mrs. Martin, by the attention you may pay to this poor orphan girl.

Payment over to the winner after notice or demand by the loser is not a good defense in an action against the stakeholder.

Si was getting a little the better of Billings, and184 the General's sympathies naturally went toward the loser.

He foresaw what it implied, however, and at once returned to Boston, to find himself a heavy loser by the financial disaster.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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