Loser

Definition: Loser

Loser

Noun

1. A contestant who loses the contest.

2. A person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently.

3. A gambler who loses a bet.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "loser" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Loser

Government

Also-ran, loser; has-been.

Crosswords: Loser

Both my wife and daughter think I'm this gigantic loser and they're right, I have lost something (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Loser, lose all. You probably don't understand that (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

My daughter's married to a real loser bastard (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

The loser will be taunted and booed until my throat is sore (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

So I basically come off as this big, dumb, fat, unemployed loser. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Cause I'm a loser, I'm a loser, yeah (Loser; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

I was a high school loser (Walk This Way; performing artist: Aerosmith)

I'm so cool, too bad I'm a loser (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

For the loser now will be later to win ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

I've seen a loser win (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast)

Second place is the first loser. (references; author: unknown)

A winner says, "There must be a better way to do it." A loser says, "This is the way it has always been done here. (references; author: unknown)

Loser Takes All (1956)

The Good Loser (1953)

Lucky Loser (1934)

The Loser Wins (1925)

A Lucky Loser (1920)

Lonesome Loser (performing artist: Little River Band)

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Books

• Erle Stanley Gardner, Seven Complete Novels: Perry Mason in the Case Of, the Glamorous Ghost, the Terrified Typist, the Lucky Loser, the Screaming W (reference)

• Loser (reference)

• Loser : The Real Seattle Music Story (Updated Second Edition) (reference)

• The Get Along Gang and the Bad Loser (reference)

• The Loser (Phoenix Fiction Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Loser (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Loser [EP] (reference)

• Punker Loser Drunker (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Three time loser!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Each Mixed Arbitral Tribunal will settle its own procedure except in so far as it is provided in the following Annex, and is empowered to award the sums to be paid by the loser in respect of the costs and expenses of the proceedings. (reference)

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She would be a loser in every way.

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Economic History

Colombia

Several cases exist in which U.S. firms have won arbitration awards, but have seen the loser try to avoid or at least delay payment by seeking to nullify the award in Colombia's court system. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

There is a winner and a loser. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "loser": be a bad loser ♦ early loser ♦ sore loser ♦ you will be the loser by it. Additional references.

Ending with "loser": money-loser, vote-loser.

Albanian

i humbur (dupe, faraway, forfeit, gone, lorn, losing, lost, missing, stray, strayed, waste), humbës (underdog), dështak (abortion, failure). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الخاسر (underdog). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кон който губи, несретник (bastard, lame duck, waster). (various references)

Chinese 

失败者. (various references)

Czech

ztroskotanec (castaway, dropout). (various references)

Danish

omkostninger betales af tabende part (on condition that the loser shall pay). (various references)

Dutch

op kosten van ongelijk (on condition that the loser shall pay). (various references)

Farsi 

ورق بازنده , ضررکننده , اسب بازنده , بازنده . (various references)

Finnish

olla tappiolla (be the loser, have the worst of it), jouduin alakynteen (he got the better of me, I came off the loser). (various references)

French

perdant (losing, lost). (various references)

German

verlierer (losers). (various references)

Greek 

χάνων, ηττημένοσ (beaten), ηττημένος (defeated). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפס�"ן, מאב�". (various references)

Hungarian

vesztes (beat, losing), legyőzött (beat, beaten, discomfited, subdued, vanquished), kiadó lap, kiadó ütés. (various references)

Indonesian

pecundang, orang yang kalah. (various references)

Italian

perdente (looser, losers, underdog). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� け犬 (underdog), 落し主 (owner of a lost article), 落とし主 (owner of a lost article), 敗者 (the defeated, vanquished). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おとしぬし (owner of a lost article), まけいぬ (underdog), はいしゃ (allocation or dispatching of cars, decommissioned vehicle, dentist, giving thanks, out of service vehicle, the defeated, vanquished). (various references)

Korean 

분실자. (various references)

Manx

cailleyder (also-ran), cailjeyder. (various references)

Norwegian

taper. (various references)

Pig Latin

oserlay.(various references)

Portuguese

vencido (beaten, due, mature, overdue, payable, subdued, washed-up), perdedor, derrotado (unplaced). (various references)

Romanian

persoanã care pierde, pãgubaş (victim). (various references)

Russian 

неудачник (dud, failure, might-have-been, misfit, underdog, washout). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pobeđeni, koji gubi (losing), gubitnik (underdog). (various references)

Spanish

perdedor (losing, underdog). (various references)

Swedish

förlorare (underdog). (various references)

Thai

ผู้สูญเสีย. (various references)

Turkish

mağlup, kaybeden kimse. (various references)

Ukrainian

той, що зазнав поразки, невдаха (dud, fail, flop, might-have-been, misfit, never-was, underdog, unfortunate, washout). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật t�"i (apology). (various references)

Welsh

collwr, colledwr. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "loser": losers. (additional references)

Words ending with "loser": closer, discloser, encloser, incloser. (additional references)

Words containing "loser": closers, cycloserine, cycloserines, disclosers, enclosers, inclosers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Loser" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blooser, Blosser, Eloesser, flooser, leser, lhose, lieserl, lisre, lisser, Lloer, loaer, loder, loer, loeser, Loesser, lofer, lojer, Loker, loosert, lorer, lores, Losec, losed, losen, losere, loshe, losie, losse, losser, losset, lostr, loter, louer, louser, loxer, Loyer, loyset, lozen, lozer, lozere, lozir, lswer, lusa, luser, luxer, luzer, olcer, oler, Olesker, Olmer, olsa, oser, ulose. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lores, orles, roles, sorel.

-1 letter: eros, lore, lose, oles, ores, orle, roes, role, rose, sloe, sole, sore.

-2 letters: els, ers, oes, ole, ore, ors, ose, res, roe, sel, ser, sol.

-3 letters: el, er, es, lo, oe, or, os, re, so.

+1 letter: ceorls, closer, cresol, dorsel, enrols, lessor, loners, looser, lopers, lories, losers, lovers, lowers, morels, morsel, nerols, oglers, oilers, oriels, ostler, polers, proles, reoils, resold, resole, robles, rowels, sloper, slower, solder, solver, sorels, sorely, sorrel, splore, sterol.

+2 letters: aerosol, areolas, areoles, blowers, boilers, boleros, bolster, bolters, bordels, bowlers, cholers, claroes, cloners, closers, closure, clovers, coalers, coilers, colters, colures, coolers, corbels, cormels, cornels, corslet, costrel, creoles, creosol, cresols, dorsels, elopers, elusory, enrolls, erosely, escolar, estriol, flexors, florets, flowers, folders, fowlers, galores, gaolers, glories, glosser, glovers, glowers, golfers, grovels, holders, hollers, holster, hostler, howlers, jolters, jostler, lassoer, lectors, leprose, leprosy, leprous, lessors, loaders, loafers, loaners, lobbers, lobster, lockers, lodgers, lofters, loggers, loiters, lollers, longers, lookers, loopers, looters, loppers, lorises, lorries, lousier, louvers, louvres, merlons, merlots, moilers, molders, molters, morales, morsels, nerolis, oarless, oldster, oracles, ordeals, orioles, ostlers, ourself, paroles, pelorus, petrols, plessor, plexors, plovers, plowers, polders, pollers, presold, prolegs, propels, reboils, recoals, recoils, reflows, refolds, regloss, reglows, regosol, reloads, reloans, relocks, relooks, remolds, replots, repolls, reposal, rerolls, resoled, resoles, resolve, retools, revolts, rissole, rodless, rolfers, rollers, rondels, ronnels, roselle, roseola, roubles, safrole, scolder, scowler, serosal, settlor, shoaler, slobber, slogger, slopers, smolder, snorkel, soberly, soilure, solacer, solders, soldier, soleret, solider, solvers, sorrels, splores, spoiler, sporule, sterols, toilers, tollers, toolers, trowels, velours, weldors, wolfers, wolvers, woolers, yodlers, yowlers.