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no-hopers

no-hopers is the plural of no-hoper.

Meaning of no-hoper

Noun

no-hoper (plural no-hopers)

  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.1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 4

Questions about no-hopers

What is no-hopers the plural of?
No-hopers is the plural of no-hoper.

Words near no-hopers in the dictionary

  1. no-hitter
  2. no-hitters
  3. no-ho
  4. no-holds-barred
  5. no-hoper
  6. no-hopers
  7. no-hos
  8. no-host
  9. no-issue
  10. no-jump
  11. no-jumps

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