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Nonstarter

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A project that has no chance of success.

    "The problem with the CRFB and CBO ideas is that they would be nonstarters politically."

  2. 2
    a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered wordnet
  3. 3
    A horse that does not run in a race for which it has been entered.
  4. 4
    a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently wordnet
  5. 5
    A loser; a person who is bound to fail.

    "But Berg was just a fool, a buffoon, a nonentity, a nonstarter so inept he took naps under bear bair."

Etymology

From non- + starter.

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