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Straggler

//ˈstɹæɡlə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who goes against the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.

    "She recounted her life in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and how a ragtag band of Red Army stragglers, escaped prisoners of war and Jewish and gentile Resistance fighters — including some women — harassed the Germans behind the Wehrmacht’s front lines in the forests and swamps of what is now Belarus."

  2. 2
    someone who strays or falls behind wordnet
  3. 3
    One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.

    "This isn't the 1970s, when the UK stood out as the European straggler."

  4. 4
    One who roams without any settled direction.
  5. 5
    A migratory animal found away from its usual range.
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  1. 6
    A roving vagabond.
  2. 7
    Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
  3. 8
    Something that stands alone or by itself.

Etymology

From straggle + -er.

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