underdognoun
uk/ˈʌn.də.dɒɡ/us/ˈʌn.dɚ.dɑːɡ/the underdog [ S ]
a person or group of people with less power, money, etc. than the rest of society:
As a politician, her sympathy was always for the underdog in society.
[ C usually singular ] in a competition, the person or team considered to be the weakest and the least likely to win
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Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- foul-up
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- parody
- slim pickings
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- turkey
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