May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:51 AM

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