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no-ˈhoper Austral. slang.
[f. no a. + hoper.]
a. A horse with no prospect of winning, an outsider.
b. A useless or incompetent person, one from whom no good can be expected.
1943Baker Dict. Austral. Slang (ed. 3) 54 No-hoper, an outsider. (Racing slang.) 1945T. Ronan Strangers on Ophir (1966) 79 There were actually eight runners in it: the three favourites, three no-hopers hardly up to hack⁓race standard, [etc.]. 1953[see drongo 3]. 1957D. Niland Call me when Cross turns Over i. 27 This son was not a no-hoper. 1959Baker Drum (1960) iii. 33 The suggestion that a heart of gold beats in the breast of every no-hoper. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Dec. 753/2 Shanty towns where the ‘no-hopers’ drink their big cheques away. 1967J. Morrison in Coast to Coast 1965–66 137 He's a bit of a no-hoper. 1971Sunday Australian 8 Aug. 5/1 He prefers that they go north to the mining towns to..staying in the cities where they are dragged down to the level of no-hopers they pick up with. |