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English
Etymology
no + hope + -er
Noun
no-hoper (plural no-hopers)
- Someone or something that has no hope of success.
1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 4:Francis Urquhart: Six days to the first ballot. Who are we up against?
Tim Stamper: Mackenzie, Earle, Woolton, Samuels, and three no-hopers: Bairsted, Llewellyn-Jones-Rhys, and Bogg.
2000 March 12, Stuart Barnes, “Swindon stunner for Curbishley”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:After 12 successive league wins […] Charlton were nobbled by the First Division's no-hopers, who profited from a goalkeeping bloomer then held on to their lead for dear life.
2016, Jack Chapman, Prodigal Son:"Brain-dead kids. Born losers. No-hopers the lot of 'em. I mean, as a taxpayer, what do they effin' teach 'em in school these days? I ask you!"
Translations
someone without hope of success
something without hope of success
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