Definition of also-rans

also-ran    

noun

• a loser.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
  
  Citation from "Bonds Wait for Credible Plan", California Rail News, April 2011 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to lose, be defeated, fail.

  Last edited on Jul 06 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'to lose, be defeated, fail':
bomb	Definitions include: good; excellent; "cool".
get b*tch-slapped	Definitions include: to be bitch-slapped.
go tits-up	Definitions include: to fail.
fail	Definitions include: an instance of failure.
get (one's) *ss handed to	Definitions include: to be severely defeated.
jabroni	Definitions include: in "professional wrestling," a wrestler who intentionally loses to improve the image of the winner.
buckle	Definitions include: to fail or err due to pressure.
go down	Definitions include: as a greeting, a rhetorical question asking about what's happening.
bite it	Definitions include: to fall and hit the ground.
ownage	Definitions include: anything great, cool, awesome.
get owned	Definitions include: See own.
blow it	Definitions include: to completely fail a task.
take an l	Definitions include: "take a loss", i.e. to suffer a loss in a competition.
do a number on	Definitions include: to do a poor job.
trainwreck	Definitions include: a total failure.
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AKA	Definitions include: acronym of "Also Known As."
Other terms relating to 'ran':
look like who did it and ran	Definitions include: to look disorderly, undesirable.

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