losers

Noun

loser (plural losers)

1. A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
   • In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser.

   Antonyms:

   winner

2. Something of poor quality.
3. A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
   • That guy is a born loser!

   Synonyms:

   failure

4. (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.
   • Mike didn't work but insisted that Jewell have a job. He would stay home and do whatever — smoke pot, screw around. He was a total loser, and she picked up the slack. That's around the time that Mom met her soon-to-be-next husband. He immediately moved in. He was a loser, too, with the same work...2012, Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, “Fatherhood”, in Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 203

   Synonyms:

   crumb, losel, louse, absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion

5. 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.1999, Larry Medsker, Lakhmi C. Jain, Recurrent Neural Networks: Design and Applications, →ISBN, page 192
6. 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.1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, page 58

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