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no-hoper
noun- a worthless person; a person with no prospects AUSTRALIA, 1944
- “Aw, give the kid a go,” argued Joyce. “He might’ve been a no-hoper, but he ain’t done anything bad since he’s been here.” — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 81, 1959
- You flaming no-hopers worry a man so much you’d make him forget what day it is! — Ray Slattery, Mobbs’ Mob, p. 19, 1966
- — Jean Brooks, The Opal Witch, p. 69, 1967
- We didn’t create the pedestrian plaza in Martin Place for the hippies, layabouts and no-hopers. — Bill Hornadge, The Ugly Australian, p. 233, 1970
- — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 57, 1971
- [T]he lads from the corridors of learning are a bunch of “no hopers” when it comes to sex. — Flame, p. 9, 1972
- a horse considered unable to win a race; a rank outsider AUSTRALIA, 1943
- Then there was the Saturday he put two bob each way on some no-hoper at Rosehill and the no-hoper had come in at fifty to one[.] — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 27, 1954
- In a bellow that could be heard all over the ring he would offer to lay fantastic wagers against horses he believed were no-hopers. — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 126, 1956
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