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noun

• a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently

• a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered

37%6 Dish served before a main course (or, in the US, the main course itself)
noun

• the principal dish of a meal

• the right to enter

• something that provides access (to get in or get out)

• an entrance, especially a theatrical entrance onto a stage or as if onto a stage

31%7 a method used in peavey and cant hook operations to move logs
verb

• work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes

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