losing line
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.76 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of losing streak (“uninterrupted series of losses”).
Example Sentences
- ""I wish you two men would give me the tip for beating this purgatorial image," he grumbled as they came up. "I thought that he'd struck a losing line after your experience and this is the result." He indicated the spectacle of their amiable host folding up his I.O.U. preparatory to dropping it carelessly into a letter-rack, and shrugged his shoulders with keen disgust."