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deserves to lose
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adj. [common] Said of someone who willfully does the Wrong Thing ;
humorously, if one uses a feature known to be marginal. What is meant is
that one deserves the consequences of one's losing actions. Boy, anyone who
tries to use mess-dos deserves to lose ! ( ITS fans used to say the same
thing of Unix ; many still do.) See also screw , chomp , bagbiter.