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no-hoper

noun

Etymology

From no + hope + -er.

  1. inherited from *hopōn✻
  2. inherited from hopian
  3. inherited from hopen
  4. formed as no-hoper — “no + hope + -er”

Definitions

  1. Someone or something that has no hope of success.

    • Francis Urquhart: Six days to the first ballot. Who are we up against? Tim Stamper: Mackenzie, Earle, Woolton, Samuels, and three no-hopers: Bairsted, Llewellyn-Jones-Rhys, and Bogg.
    • After 12 successive league wins[…]Charlton were nobbled by the First Division's no-hopers, who profited from a goalkeeping bloomer then held on to their lead for dear life.
    • "Brain-dead kids. Born losers. No-hopers the lot of 'em. I mean, as a taxpayer, what do they effin' teach 'em in school these days? I ask you!"

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