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Waterloo
[waw-ter-loo, wot-er-, waw-ter-loo, wot-er-, vah-tuh
noun
a village in central Belgium, south of Brussels: Napoleon decisively defeated here on June 18, 1815.
a decisive or crushing defeat.
The candidate met her Waterloo in the national elections.
a city in E Iowa.
a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
Waterloo
/ ˌɔːəˈː /
noun
a small town in central Belgium, in Walloon Brabant province south of Brussels: battle (1815) fought nearby in which British and Prussian forces under the Duke of Wellington and Blücher routed the French under Napoleon. Pop: 29 003 (2004 est)
a total or crushing defeat (esp in meet one's Waterloo )
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
In it, he sits on a black stallion, raising his white-feathered hat to salute the cavalry - a tribute to the prime minister and military hero who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
The borough council has described the vacant Waterloo House building as a "blight" on the town centre.
The Bakerloo line and Waterloo & City lines are suspended, there are no trains between London Bridge and Finchley Road on the Jubilee line and the Elizabeth line is not running between Abbey Wood and Paddington.
Since then, she said she "fell head first" into the industry, which was "kind of mental", and she recently joined the cast of BBC drama Waterloo Road for the latest series.
As a teen, I was addicted to programmes such as Waterloo Road and Skins, which, like soaps, followed the lives of a community who found themselves embroiled in increasingly outlandish plot lines.
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