deserves to lose adj.
[common] Said of someone who
willfully does the Wrong Thing; humorously, if one uses a
feature known to be marginal. What is meant is that one
deserves the consequences of one's losing actions. "Boy,
anyone who tries to use mess-dos deserves to lose!"
(ITS fans used to say the same thing of Unix; many still
do.) See also screw, chomp, bagbiter.
[common] Said of someone who
willfully does the Wrong Thing; humorously, if one uses a
feature known to be marginal. What is meant is that one
deserves the consequences of one's losing actions. "Boy,
anyone who tries to use mess-dos deserves to lose!"
(ITS fans used to say the same thing of Unix; many still
do.) See also screw, chomp, bagbiter.
Related:
- deserves to lose: adj. Said of someone who willfully does the
{Wrong Thing};
humorously, if one uses a feature known to be {marginal}... - lose vi.
1. [very common] To fail. A program loses
when it encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the
expected manner.
2. To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky. 3... - DWIM /dwim/
[acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able
to guess,
sometimes even correctly, the result intended when... - Verb doubling: a standard construction is to double a verb and use it
as a comment on what the implied subject does.
Often used to terminate a conversation. Typical examples... - One good turn deserves another.
--
Gaius... - canonical adj.
[very common; historically, `according
to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of
something.
This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in... - lose: [MIT] vi. 1. To fail. A program loses when it encounters
an exceptional condition or fails to work in the expected manner.
2. To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky. 3. Of... - chomp vi.
1. To lose; specifically, to chew on something
of which more was bitten off than one can.
Probably related to gnashing of teeth. 2. To bite...
