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deserves to lose
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deserves to lose /adj./ 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.
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