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- running mate
collapse - a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices related words >
- underdog
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- one at a disadvantage and expected to lose related words >
- loser
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- a gambler who loses a bet
- a contestant who loses the contest related words >
- also-ran,
- bankrupt,
- bomb,
- booby,
- bummer,
- bust,
- clinker,
- con,
- defeatee,
- duck,
- dud,
- failure,
- fall guy,
- false alarm,
- fiasco,
- flop,
- game loser,
- good loser,
- good sport,
- hard-luck guy,
- hardcase,
- jailbird,
- lag,
- lemon,
- misfit,
- nebbish,
- poor unfortunate,
- sad sack,
- schlemiel,
- schlimazel,
- sport,
- stooge,
- sure loser,
- the vanquished,
- underdog,
- unfortunate,
- victim,
- washout
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bankrupt,
- booby,
- candidate,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- defeatee,
- duck,
- dud,
- failure,
- fall guy,
- false alarm,
- favorite son,
- flop,
- game loser,
- good loser,
- good sport,
- hopeful,
- lame duck,
- loser,
- office seeker,
- political hopeful,
- presidential timber,
- running mate,
- sport,
- stalking-horse,
- stooge,
- the vanquished,
- underdog,
- victim,
- washout
- lame duck
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- an elected official still in office but not slated to continue related words >
- adventurer,
- also-ran,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bankrupt,
- big operator,
- candidate,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- dud,
- failure,
- favorite son,
- gunslinger,
- holdover,
- hopeful,
- incumbent,
- ins,
- insolvent,
- insolvent debtor,
- jack-in-office,
- margin purchaser,
- new broom,
- office seeker,
- office-bearer,
- officeholder,
- operator,
- plunger,
- political hopeful,
- president-elect,
- presidential timber,
- public official,
- public servant,
- running mate,
- scalper,
- smart operator,
- speculator,
- stag,
- stalking-horse
- candidate
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- someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) related words >
- addict,
- agent,
- also-ran,
- applicant,
- appointee,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- assignee,
- baby kisser,
- bidder,
- campaigner,
- claimant,
- collector,
- coveter,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- deputy,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dud,
- entrant,
- fancier,
- favorite son,
- freak,
- hankerer,
- has-been,
- hopeful,
- lame duck,
- licensee,
- lover,
- nominee,
- office seeker,
- petitioner,
- political hopeful,
- possibility,
- postulant,
- presidential timber,
- prospect,
- runner,
- running mate,
- seeker,
- selectee,
- solicitant,
- solicitor,
- stalking-horse,
- stumper,
- suitor,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- votary,
- wanter,
- whistle-stopper,
- wisher,
- yearner
- also-ran,
- babe,
- boob,
- booby,
- butt,
- chump,
- cinch,
- credulous person,
- cull,
- defeatee,
- duck,
- dupe,
- easy mark,
- easy pickings,
- fish,
- fool,
- game loser,
- goat,
- gobe-mouches,
- good loser,
- good sport,
- greener,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- gudgeon,
- gull,
- innocent,
- leadpipe cinch,
- loser,
- monkey,
- patsy,
- pigeon,
- plaything,
- prize sap,
- pushover,
- sap,
- saphead,
- scapegoat,
- schlemiel,
- sitting duck,
- sport,
- stooge,
- sucker,
- the vanquished,
- toy,
- trusting soul,
- underdog,
- victim,
- whipping boy
- aspirant
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- an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes"
- desiring or striving for recognition or advancement related words >
- Leibnizian optimist,
- Pollyanna,
- addict,
- also-ran,
- applicant,
- aspirer,
- baby kisser,
- bidder,
- candidate,
- chiliast,
- claimant,
- collector,
- coveter,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dud,
- fancier,
- favorite son,
- freak,
- hankerer,
- hopeful,
- hoper,
- irrepressible optimist,
- lame duck,
- lover,
- millenarian,
- millennialist,
- millennian,
- office seeker,
- optimist,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionist,
- petitioner,
- philosophical optimist,
- political hopeful,
- postulant,
- presidential timber,
- ray of sunshine,
- running mate,
- seeker,
- solicitant,
- solicitor,
- stalking-horse,
- suitor,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- utopian,
- votary,
- wanter,
- wisher,
- yearner
- booby
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- small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both related words >
- also-ran,
- asshole,
- bag,
- boob,
- boobs,
- bosom,
- breast,
- breasts,
- brisket,
- bust,
- chest,
- chump,
- crop,
- defeatee,
- ding-a-ling,
- dingbat,
- dingdong,
- dolt,
- dolthead,
- duck,
- dug,
- fall guy,
- fathead,
- galoot,
- game loser,
- good loser,
- good sport,
- goof,
- jerk,
- jerk-off,
- klutz,
- knockers,
- loser,
- mama,
- mamelon,
- mamelonation,
- mammary gland,
- mammilla,
- mammillation,
- mutt,
- nenes,
- nipple,
- oak,
- pap,
- papilla,
- pigeon breast,
- prize sap,
- sap,
- saphead,
- sawney,
- schlemiel,
- sport,
- stooge,
- teat,
- the vanquished,
- thorax,
- tit,
- tits,
- titties,
- titty,
- udder,
- underdog,
- victim
- dud
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- failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine" related words >
- abortion,
- abortive attempt,
- also-ran,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bankrupt,
- blank cartridge,
- bogy,
- bomb,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- bust,
- candidate,
- castrato,
- cipher,
- cry of wolf,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- dummy,
- eunuch,
- failure,
- false alarm,
- favorite son,
- flop,
- gelding,
- hollow man,
- hopeful,
- impotent,
- incompetent,
- invalid,
- jackstraw,
- lame duck,
- lay figure,
- lemon,
- loser,
- man of straw,
- merry chase,
- miscarriage,
- miscarrying,
- misfire,
- nebbish,
- nobody,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- nullity,
- office seeker,
- political hopeful,
- presidential timber,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- running mate,
- stalking-horse,
- thing of naught,
- trifle,
- vain attempt,
- washout,
- weakling,
- wet squib,
- wild-goose chase,
- zero
- dark horse
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- a racehorse about which little is known
- a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly related words >
- also-ran,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bare possibility,
- candidate,
- defeated candidate,
- dud,
- enigma,
- favorite son,
- fighting chance,
- frontier,
- frontiers of knowledge,
- gambling chance,
- hardly a chance,
- hopeful,
- hundred-to-one shot,
- improbability,
- lame duck,
- little chance,
- little opportunity,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- matter of ignorance,
- mystery,
- n,
- off chance,
- office seeker,
- outside chance,
- political hopeful,
- poor bet,
- poor lookout,
- poor possibility,
- poor prospect,
- presidential timber,
- puzzle,
- remote possibility,
- riddle,
- running mate,
- sealed book,
- slim chance,
- small chance,
- stalking-horse,
- terra incognita,
- the incalculable,
- the strange,
- the unfamiliar,
- the unknowable,
- the unknown,
- unexplored ground,
- unexplored territory,
- unknown quantity,
- unlikelihood,
- x,
- z
- flash in the pan
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- someone who enjoys transient success but then fails related words >
- abortion,
- abortive attempt,
- also-ran,
- bankrupt,
- best seller,
- big hit,
- blank cartridge,
- bogy,
- brilliant success,
- bubble,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- castrato,
- cipher,
- cry of wolf,
- dud,
- dummy,
- ephemera,
- ephemeral,
- ephemerid,
- ephemerides,
- ephemeris,
- eunuch,
- fad,
- failure,
- false alarm,
- flop,
- gas,
- gasser,
- gelding,
- great success,
- hit,
- hollow man,
- impotent,
- incompetent,
- invalid,
- jackstraw,
- killing,
- lay figure,
- loser,
- man of straw,
- mayfly,
- merry chase,
- meteoric success,
- miscarriage,
- miscarrying,
- misfire,
- momentary success,
- nebbish,
- nobody,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- nullity,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- resounding triumph,
- riot,
- roaring success,
- sensation,
- smash,
- smash hit,
- smoke,
- snows of yesteryear,
- thing of naught,
- trifle,
- triumph,
- vain attempt,
- washout,
- weakling,
- wet squib,
- wild-goose chase,
- wow,
- zero
- washout
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- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway); "from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water"
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water; "it was several days after the storm before they could repair the washout and open the road" related words >
- ablution,
- airmanship,
- alluvion,
- alluvium,
- also-ran,
- bankrupt,
- bollix,
- bomb,
- botch,
- breakdown,
- breaking up,
- breakup,
- brief,
- briefing,
- bungle,
- bust,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- cave,
- cave-in,
- cleaning out,
- collapse,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- debacle,
- deluge,
- disaster,
- douche,
- douching,
- dud,
- dull thud,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- enema,
- engulfment,
- failure,
- false alarm,
- fiasco,
- fizzle,
- flat failure,
- flight plan,
- flood,
- flop,
- floperoo,
- flunk,
- flush,
- flushing,
- flushing out,
- flying lessons,
- foozle,
- frost,
- hash,
- inundation,
- irrigation,
- lathering,
- lavabo,
- lavage,
- lavation,
- laving,
- lemon,
- loser,
- mess,
- mopping,
- mopping up,
- muddle,
- overflow,
- overflowing,
- overrunning,
- pilot training,
- pilotship,
- rinse,
- rinsing,
- rundown,
- scouring,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scrubbing up,
- shampoo,
- shipwreck,
- smash,
- smashup,
- soaping,
- spill,
- spillage,
- sponge,
- sponging,
- submersion,
- swabbing,
- the Deluge,
- the Flood,
- total loss,
- turkey,
- wash,
- washing,
- washing up,
- washup,
- whelming,
- wiping up,
- wrack,
- wreck
- victim
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- an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
- a person who is tricked or swindled related words >
- also-ran,
- babe,
- beasts of venery,
- big game,
- boob,
- booby,
- butt,
- byword,
- byword of reproach,
- casualty,
- chump,
- cinch,
- credulous person,
- cull,
- defeatee,
- derision,
- duck,
- dupe,
- easy mark,
- easy pickings,
- fair game,
- fall guy,
- figure of fun,
- fish,
- fool,
- game,
- game loser,
- gazingstock,
- goat,
- gobe-mouches,
- good loser,
- good sport,
- greener,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- gudgeon,
- gull,
- hard-luck guy,
- hardcase,
- innocent,
- jest,
- jestingstock,
- joke,
- kill,
- laughingstock,
- leadpipe cinch,
- loser,
- mark,
- martyr,
- mockery,
- monkey,
- object of compassion,
- offering,
- patsy,
- pigeon,
- plaything,
- poor devil,
- poor unfortunate,
- prey,
- prize sap,
- pushover,
- quarry,
- sacrifice,
- sad sack,
- sap,
- saphead,
- scapegoat,
- schlemiel,
- schlimazel,
- sitting duck,
- sport,
- stock,
- stooge,
- sucker,
- sufferer,
- sure loser,
- target,
- the hunted,
- the vanquished,
- toy,
- trusting soul,
- underdog,
- unfortunate,
- venery,
- wretch
- bankrupt
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- someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
- financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up"
- reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" related words >
- almsman,
- almswoman,
- also-ran,
- ausgespielt,
- bankrupt in,
- bare,
- bare of,
- beggar,
- bereft of,
- blasted,
- blighted,
- break,
- broke,
- broken,
- bust,
- busted,
- casual,
- charity case,
- denudate,
- denude,
- denuded of,
- deprive,
- deprived of,
- desolated,
- destitute,
- destitute of,
- destroyed,
- devastated,
- devoid of,
- dilapidate,
- dismantle,
- disrobe,
- divest,
- done for,
- done in,
- down-and-out,
- down-and-outer,
- drain,
- draw,
- draw down,
- dud,
- empty of,
- exhaust,
- failed,
- failure,
- fallen,
- false alarm,
- finished,
- flop,
- fold up,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- fortuneless,
- gone to pot,
- hardcase,
- homeless,
- impair,
- impoverish,
- in default of,
- in receivership,
- in ruins,
- in the gutter,
- in the red,
- in want of,
- incapacitate,
- indigent,
- insolvent,
- insolvent debtor,
- irremediable,
- kaput,
- lacking,
- lame duck,
- landless,
- loser,
- missing,
- moneyless,
- needing,
- on the rocks,
- out of,
- out of funds,
- out of pocket,
- overthrown,
- pauper,
- pauperize,
- penniless,
- penniless man,
- poor devil,
- poor man,
- poorling,
- propertyless,
- ravaged,
- reduce,
- ruin,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- scant of,
- scuttle,
- shipwreck,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- shy of,
- sink,
- spoiled,
- starveling,
- unblessed with,
- undone,
- unpossessed of,
- use up,
- void of,
- wanting,
- washout,
- wasted,
- welfare client,
- without a sou,
- wreck,
- wrecked
- alibi,
- also-ran,
- ambuscade,
- ambush,
- ambushment,
- apology,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bidet,
- blind,
- booby trap,
- candidate,
- carriage horse,
- cart horse,
- cavalry horse,
- cloak,
- color,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- device,
- draft horse,
- dray horse,
- driving horse,
- dud,
- excuse,
- facade,
- favorite son,
- feint,
- fill horse,
- filler,
- front,
- gigster,
- gloss,
- guise,
- hack,
- hackney,
- handle,
- hopeful,
- hunter,
- jument,
- lame duck,
- lame excuse,
- lead,
- leader,
- locus standi,
- lurking hole,
- mask,
- mount,
- office seeker,
- ostensible motive,
- pack horse,
- palfrey,
- plow horse,
- pole horse,
- political hopeful,
- polo pony,
- poor excuse,
- post-horse,
- presidential timber,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- refuge,
- remount,
- rider,
- riding horse,
- road horse,
- roadster,
- rouncy,
- running mate,
- saddle horse,
- saddler,
- screen,
- semblance,
- shadowing,
- shaft horse,
- sham,
- show,
- smoke screen,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- sumpter,
- sumpter horse,
- surveillance,
- thill horse,
- thiller,
- trap,
- trick,
- varnish,
- veil,
- wheeler,
- wheelhorse,
- workhorse
- hopeful
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- having or manifesting or inspiring hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem" related words >
- Leibnizian optimist,
- Pollyanna,
- addict,
- adolescent,
- advantageous,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- also-ran,
- anticipant,
- anticipating,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- applicant,
- apt,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- aspiring,
- assured,
- auspicious,
- awaiting,
- baby,
- baby kisser,
- beaming,
- blithe,
- blithesome,
- bright,
- bright and sunny,
- budding,
- candidate,
- certain,
- cheerful,
- cheering,
- cheery,
- chiliast,
- collector,
- confident,
- content,
- couleur de rose,
- coveter,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dud,
- eager,
- easy,
- elated,
- encouraging,
- eupeptic,
- euphoric,
- exalted,
- exhilarated,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- fair,
- fancier,
- favorite son,
- fledgling,
- flushed,
- fond,
- forearmed,
- foreseeable,
- forestalling,
- forewarned,
- freak,
- full of hope,
- gaping,
- genial,
- glad,
- gladsome,
- glowing,
- golden,
- halcyon,
- hankerer,
- happy,
- heartening,
- high,
- hoper,
- hoping,
- in anticipation,
- in expectation,
- in good heart,
- in good spirits,
- in high spirits,
- in hopes,
- in the cards,
- infant,
- inspiriting,
- irrepressible,
- irrepressible optimist,
- junior,
- juvenal,
- juvenile,
- lame duck,
- laughing,
- liable,
- likely,
- looking for,
- looking forward to,
- lover,
- millenarian,
- millennialist,
- millennian,
- minor,
- not surprised,
- odds-on,
- of good cheer,
- of good hope,
- office seeker,
- optimist,
- optimistic,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionist,
- philosophical optimist,
- pleasant,
- political hopeful,
- predictable,
- predictable within limits,
- prepared,
- presidential timber,
- presumable,
- presumptive,
- probable,
- promising,
- propitious,
- pubescent,
- radiant,
- ray of sunshine,
- ready,
- reassuring,
- riant,
- rose-colored,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- running mate,
- sanguine,
- sanguineous,
- sapling,
- satisfied,
- secure,
- seeker,
- slip,
- smiling,
- solicitant,
- sparkling,
- sprig,
- stalking-horse,
- statistically probable,
- stripling,
- suitor,
- sunny,
- sure,
- teenager,
- teener,
- teenybopper,
- undespairing,
- undisturbed,
- unsurprised,
- up-and-coming,
- upbeat,
- utopian,
- verisimilar,
- votary,
- waiting,
- waiting for,
- wanter,
- watching for,
- winsome,
- wisher,
- yearner,
- young hopeful,
- young person,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth
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