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See also: non-starter
Englisch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Nomen
[edit]nonstarter (plural nonstarters)
- A project that has no chance of success.
- A horse that does not run in a race for which it has been entered.
- A loser; a person who is bound to fail.
- 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 225:
- But Berg was just a fool, a buffoon, a nonentity, a nonstarter so inept he took naps under bear bair.