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loser

[loo-zer]

noun

  1. a person, team, nation, etc., that loses.

    The visiting team was the loser in the series.

  2. 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 ).

      Don't bother to see that film, it's a real loser.

  3. Slang.a misfit, especially someone who has never or seldom been successful at a job, personal relationship, etc.



loser

/ ˈːə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that loses

  2. a person or thing that seems destined to be taken advantage of, fail, etc

    a born loser

  3. bridge a card that will not take a trick

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • nonloser noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of loser1

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

see under finders, keepers.
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When did those precepts of manhood become rules for losers?

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I liked chunks of the film, but it rankled me that she framed the spouse as such a consolation-prize loser to make her heroine come off as sacrificial.

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“There’s losing and then there’s being a loser. Game time comes with enough pressure,” the video said.

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And yes, a sense of the winners and losers.

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"You're truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser," Biles wrote on X.

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