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单词 nonstarter
释义

nonstarter

See also: non-starter

English

Etymology

non- + starter

Noun

nonstarter (plural nonstarters)

  1. A project that has no chance of success
  2. A horse that does not run in a race for which it has been entered
  3. A loser; a person who is bound to fail.
    • 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 225:
      But Berg was just a fool, a buffoon, a nonentity, a nonstarter so inept he took naps under bear bair.
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