Mike didn't work but insisted that Jewell have a job. He would stay home and do whatever — smoke pot, screw around. He was a totalloser, and she picked up the slack. That's around the time that Mom met her soon-to-be-next husband. He immediately moved in. He was aloser, too, with the same work ethic Mike had.
One who or that whichloses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
1999, Larry Medsker, Lakhmi C. Jain,Recurrent Neural Networks: Design and Applications,→ISBN, page192:
Another way to speed search (in general) is to order or bias the hypothesis space based on some heuristic. Suppose you are a habitual car keyloser and that you keep track of where your keys turn up after each search.
2004, Marianna S. Katona,Tales from the Berlin Wall: Recollections of Frequent Crossings,→ISBN:
But a West German reporting a lost passport in East Berlin during the years of the Wall was treated to a criminal investigation, with the passportloser as the potential criminal.
2005, Maggie Greenwood-Robinson,The BiggestLoser: The Weight Loss Program to Transform Your Body, Health and Life,→ISBN:
2009, Jane Bryant Quinn,Making the Most of Your Money Now:
You're counting on this insurance company to pay you a check many years in the future. But for some companies, disability coverage has been a moneyloser.
2010,Cutting Myself in Half: 150 Pounds Lost, One Byte at a Time,→ISBN, page109:
You have to think of yourself as an already amazing person who's hiding behind extra weight—a superhero in a disguise. If you follow the program,[…] change the message from “I'm a big loser” to “I'm a big weightloser.”
A losingproposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand).
1988,Alice Taylor,To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd,→ISBN, page58:
A new Guard came to town and decided to flex his muscles with George. We could have told him that he was on aloser but bright young men, then as now, know it all.
2001, Peter Svoboda,Beating the Casinos at Their Own Game[1], Square One Publishers,→ISBN, page57:
Hardway bets arelosers if they are rolled in any other combination—called "soft" or "easy" numbers. For instance, a Hardway bet on a 4 is aloser if the dice show as 3 and 1. Betting on a Hard 8 is aloser if the dice are rolled as a 5 and 3, or a 6 and 2. Naturally, if the 7 is rolled before the Hardway number shows, the bet is also aloser.
2021 December 17, Eric Ralph, “SpaceX to replicate Starbase, build multiple Starship launch pads in Florida”, inTeslarati[2], retrieved7 August 2022:
In terms of betting on outcomes, Mars is a clearloser.
(slang) A person convicted of acrime, especially more than once.
