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Definition of fail
fail 
adjective
- failing or simply generally bad.
Yeah, the publisher's website for the book has been fail for a long time.
- See more words with the same meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing.
Last edited on Sep 09 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2011.
interjection
- exclamation used to acknowledge or mock an instance of failure.
Fail.
- See more words with the same meaning: to lose, be defeated, fail.
Last edited on Dec 22 2010. Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 22 2010.
noun
- an instance of failure.
The team's homecoming game performance was a fail.
Citation from "Epic Win", Slate, Christopher Beam, Oct 15 2008 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "article title", Business Insider, Julia La Roche, November 15 2011 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to lose, be defeated, fail.
Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jul 26 2009.
noun - uncountable
- some amount of a bad thing. Contrast with win.
There was so much fail in that video.
- See more words with the same meaning: something of poor quality, bad, sucks.
Last edited on Oct 22 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 22 2010.
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| Definitions include: an item of poor quality. | |
| Definitions include: a dirty or promiscuous female. | |
| Definitions include: a gathering with many more males than females. | |
| Definitions include: off-brand. | |
| Definitions include: extremely horrendous, embarrassing or harsh. | |
| Definitions include: bad. | |
| Definitions include: an exclamation of disgust. | |
| Definitions include: displeasing. | |
| Definitions include: anything displeasing. | |
| Definitions include: the noun senses of "crap" are mostly a subset of the uses of "shit." | |
| Definitions include: to end an intimate relationship with someone. | |
| Definitions include: "brutal". | |
| Definitions include: See bullshit. | |
| Definitions include: of superior quality, excellent; "cool". | |
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| Definitions include: an event with a displeasing outcome. | |
| Definitions include: Most uses of "shit" also work with "crap", except where noted below. | |
| Definitions include: a motor vehicle with many mechanical problems. | |
| Definitions include: something lame. | |
| Definitions include: something very difficult. | |
| Definitions include: a friend. | |
| Definitions include: a graffiti mural. | |
Other terms relating to 'to lose, be defeated, fail': | |
| Definitions include: in "professional wrestling," a wrestler who intentionally loses to improve the image of the winner. | |
| Definitions include: See own. | |
| Definitions include: a total failure. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "Biggest Beating Ever," which can refer to "beating" as in a severe physical attack, or a severe defeat e.g. in a competitive sport. | |
| Definitions include: See school. | |
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| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: anything great, cool, awesome. | |
| Definitions include: to experience traumatic physical contact with a stationary object. | |
| Definitions include: to be severely defeated. | |
| Definitions include: a defeat. | |
| Definitions include: to fall and hit the ground. | |
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| Definitions include: to stop working. | |
| Definitions include: to fail. | |
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| Definitions include: pejorative nickname for the British daily tabloid newspaper Daily Mail. | |
| Definitions include: a large failure. | |
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