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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>loser</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lose-lose.html" title="lose lose"/><link rel="next" href="losing.html" title="losing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">loser</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lose-lose.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="losing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="loser"/><dt xmlns="" id="loser"><b>loser</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An unexpectedly bad situation, program, programmer, or person.
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Someone who habitually loses. (Even winners can lose occasionally.)
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Someone who knows not and knows not that he knows not. Emphatic forms are
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<span class="firstterm">real loser</span>, <span class="firstterm">total loser</span>, and <span class="firstterm">complete loser</span> (but not **<span class="firstterm">moby loser</span>, which would be a contradiction in
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terms). See <a href="luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lose-lose.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="losing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lose lose </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> losing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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