LOSER


Meaning of LOSER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ 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 .

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.