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Loser
Definitions
- 1 A surname from German.
- 1 A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
"In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser."
- 2 a gambler who loses a bet wordnet
- 3 Something of poor quality.
- 4 a contestant who loses the contest wordnet
- 5 A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
"That guy is a born loser!"
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- 6 a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently wordnet
- 7 A contemptible or unfashionable person. derogatory
"Mike didn't work but insisted that Jewell have a job. He would stay home and do whatever — smoke pot, screw around. He was a total loser, and she picked up the slack. That's around the time that Mom met her soon-to-be-next husband. He immediately moved in. He was a loser, too, with the same work ethic Mike had."
- 8 One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
"Another way to speed search (in general) is to order or bias the hypothesis space based on some heuristic. Suppose you are a habitual car key loser and that you keep track of where your keys turn up after each search."
- 9 A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand).
"A new Guard came to town and decided to flex his muscles with George. We could have told him that he was on a loser but bright young men, then as now, know it all."
- 10 A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once. slang
"He's a three-time loser doing twenty years."
Etymology
From Middle English loser, losere, equivalent to lose + -er. In the sense of contemptible or worthless individual, perhaps an alteration of losel, which see.
Borrowed from German Löser.
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