Definition of "no-hoper" []

• Something that has no hope of success. (noun)

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• "Most assumed that was that, including the bookies who quickly installed him as a 270-1 no-hoper, but the young American had other ideas."
• "Mellon has said she was a "no-hoper" at her expensive boarding school."
• "Clay is a professional bloat, eyes empty and drained of any serious intent, a drinking no-hoper, a writer who has not a single worthwhile thought in his head and whose sole interest is his needy, middle-age fixation on Rain, a one-dimensional sexpot."