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noun
A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
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"Shame on your front-page headline 'From loner to loser'.
"They just got lucky, what can I say?" In three batters, Colon had gone from winner to loser, same as his team, despite striking out nine and allowing five hits over 105 pitches.
His opening move labelling Mexican immigrants rapists immediately lost the left, and his demotion of John McCain, a former P.O.W., from hero to loser looked as if it would cost him the establishment right.
After a young man in Beijing was sentenced in August to 10 years in prison for trying to rob a bank with a watermelon knife, reportedly so he could make a down payment on a marital home, one newspaper published a commentary titled, " 'Ren Jian Bu Chai': How the Middle Class Went From White Collar to Loser".
When you listen to "Loser" after hearing this record, it sounds like an awkward revelation of hard times and high jinks from Beck's bohemian adolescence: "So shave your face with some mace in the dark / Saving all your foodstamps and burnin' down the trailer park".
Whereas other News Corp papers – including its tabloid sister the Daily Telegraph – marked Michael Clarke's retirement from international cricket with some sympathetic coverage amid the post-series inquests, the Brisbane paper's splash on Monday screamed "From loner to loser", pegged to allegations, hotly contested by Clarke, that he had become estranged from his team.
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As to losers?
We're used to losers here".
We're attracted to losers".
It can be heartless to losers".
Maybe Brits are more sympathetic to losers?
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