loser
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Loser \Los"er\, n.
1. One who loses; as, the loser pays for a round of beer.
--South.
[1913 Webster]
2. A person who is habitually unsuccessful at some endeavor,
such as employment or personal relationships. [slang]
[PJC]
3. A plan or strategy unlikely to succeed. [slang]
[PJC]
from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
loser
n.
An unexpectedly bad situation, program, programmer, or person. Someone
who habitually loses. (Even winners can lose occasionally.) Someone
who knows not and knows not that he knows not. Emphatic forms are real
loser, total loser, and complete loser (but not **moby loser, which
would be a contradiction in terms). See {luser}.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
loser
<jargon> An unexpectedly bad situation, program, programmer,
or person. Someone who habitually loses. (Even winners can
lose occasionally). Someone who knows not and knows not that
he knows not. Emphatic forms are "real loser", "total loser",
and "complete loser" (but not **"moby loser", which would be a
contradiction in terms).
See {luser}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-04-19)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "loser":
also-ran, bankrupt, bomb, booby, bummer, bust, clinker, con,
defeatee, duck, dud, failure, fall guy, false alarm, fiasco, flop,
game loser, good loser, good sport, hard-luck guy, hardcase,
jailbird, lag, lemon, misfit, nebbish, poor unfortunate, sad sack,
schlemiel, schlimazel, sport, stooge, sure loser, the vanquished,
underdog, unfortunate, victim, washout
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