the L

the L

slang The loss. Can refer to an actual loss, as in sports (recorded in a box score as "L"), or to a failure. Often used in the phrase "take the L." If they reject the ad campaign I create, I'm going to have to take the L and move on. Which pitcher took the L last night?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a dead loss
  • dead loss
  • loss
  • at a loss for words
  • at a loss
  • stop the bleeding
  • in (one's) prayers
  • in prayers
  • do a Devon Loch
  • (you) win a few, (you) lose a few
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They were going over to her place to watch The L Word.
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Despite the halftime bodice-ripping and the odd completed pass, the first real tension at the party arose when one of our guests pointed out that The L Word was on in five minutes.
At 10 P.M., in mid Patriot cheer, suddenly we were zooming over Los Angeles in The L Word's opening credits.
Then to the Planet, the West Holly wood coffee shop where The L Word's chic lesbian friends hang out.
Despite some decompression stops, surfacing too quickly from the NFL's testosterone-and-Viagra netherworld to the L world of estrogen and pheromones is downright disorienting.
I don't know about you, but now I go through my day fantasizing, This would be a great episode for The L Word.
Coming on The L Word
The L Company, a steel company, was formed in 1984 from the R and J Companies.
The government's position is that the transition rule is inapplicable because the payments made under the IAT programs were not made "in the case of an agreement in existence on March 24, 1983." The IAT programs do not qualify as agreements "in existence on March 24, 1983," the government argues, because they were set up in 1987 pursuant to the settlement agreements among L, the steelworkers' union and the L retirees.
Payments to nonqualified trust that replaced terminated pension plans were not exempt from employment taxes