two-time loser
Americannoun
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a person who has been sentenced to prison twice, especially for a major crime in a state where a third sentence is mandatory life imprisonment.
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a person who has failed at the same endeavor twice.
Etymology
Origin of two-time loser
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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Being tarnished as a two-time loser would be too devastating to his psyche to risk it.
From Slate • Aug. 4, 2022
Stevenson was to the Democratic Party what Thomas Dewey had been to the Republicans: a luckless two-time loser.
From Salon • Aug. 6, 2016
Q. Given your track record of being a two-time loser before finding Toni, a.k.a.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2015
He was a two-time loser who was about to be indicted for a third time, if only in the pages of a memoir.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014
If she runs again, though, and falls short, she’ll be a two-time loser, and no one will care what she has to say about anything.
From Washington Times • Jun. 22, 2014
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