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dead-enders

dead-enders is the plural of dead-ender.

Meaning of dead-ender

Noun

dead-ender (plural dead-enders)

  1. One who has no prospects for the future; a loser; a dropout.
  2. One who still holds onto a political position or other viewpoint that is considered outdated or defeated.
    • In the first months after the fall of Baghdad, Rumsfeld and his aides still had a limited view of the insurgency, seeing it as little more than the work of Baathist "dead-enders," criminal gangs, and foreign terrorists who were Al Qaeda followers.2004 05, Harold Wallace Ross, William Shawn, Tina Brown, David Remnick, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Rea Irvin, Roger Angell, The New Yorker

Questions about dead-enders

What is dead-enders the plural of?
Dead-enders is the plural of dead-ender.

Words near dead-enders in the dictionary

  1. dead-drops
  2. dead-end
  3. dead-end street
  4. dead-ended
  5. dead-ender
  6. dead-enders
  7. dead-ending
  8. dead-ends
  9. dead-eye
  10. dead-eye Dick
  11. dead-eye Dicks

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