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loser

noun
/luːzə(ɹ)//luzɚ/US

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.

  1. inherited from loser

Definitions

  1. A person who loses

    A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.

    • In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser.
    • He was always a good loser.

  2. Something of poor quality.

  3. A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.

    • That guy is a born loser!
    • I'm a constant loser in love.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A contemptible or unfashionable person.

    2. 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.
      • But a West German reporting a lost passport in East Berlin during the years of the Wall was treated to a criminal investigation, with the passport loser as the potential criminal.

    3. A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing…

      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.
      • In terms of betting on outcomes, Mars is a clear loser.

    4. A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.

      • He's a three-time loser doing twenty years.

    5. A surname from German.

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Derived

bad loser, born loser, cyberloser, first loser, good loser, hard loser, loser back home, loserboard, loser cruiser, loserdom, loserhood, loserish, loserless, loserly, loserness, losership, loser sign, lucky loser, luser, money-loser, nonloser, poor loser, sore loser, three-time loser, two-time loser

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at loser. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at loser. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at loser

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA