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Loser (hand gesture) Child making the loser gesture. The Loser is a hand gesture made by extending the right thumb and index fingers, leaving the other fingers closed to create the letter L, interpreted as "loser", and generally given as a demeaning sign. [1] Sometimes this is accompanied by raising the hand to the giver's forehead.
Pivot. 1) (Adjective) Of the suit that both defenders must guard in a double squeeze. 2) (Verb) In party bridge, to change partners while remaining at the same table. 3a) (Verb) In duplicate bridge, to play one round in a given direction, and the next round in the opposite direction at the same table.
The starting fixtures are determined by a combined process of player seeding and random selection, and may or may not involve a public draw ceremony. A qualifying draw is set up to arrange the starting lineup of the qualifying competition ( qualies ), from where unseeded players qualify for a place in the starting lineup or the main draw of the ...
In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
Mary Jane Fort, who was the costume designer forMean Girls, talks about how she dreamed up the looks of the film, including the Plastic's epic Y2K fashions.(Photo Illustration: Yahoo News; Getty ...
Lan Ying (藍瑛, 1585–1664), Chinese painter. Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743), French painter. Myra Landau (1926–2018), Romanian/Brazilian painter. Ronnie Landfield (born 1947), American painter. Edwin Landseer (1802–1873), English painter and sculptor. Fitz Hugh Lane (1804–1865), American painter and print-maker.
Lovable losers are often defined by ambitions exceeding their capabilities, and by their over-zealous, and sometimes self-defeating, efforts to obtain their desires. [1] They are prone to fall for get-rich-quick schemes, and advertised shortcuts to finding wealth, success, or love, and to act impulsively in the pursuit of these things, [1] but ...
Loss leader. A loss leader (also leader) [1] is a pricing strategy where a product is sold at a price below its market cost [2] to stimulate other sales of more profitable goods or services. With this sales promotion / marketing strategy, a "leader" is any popular article, i.e., sold at a low price to attract customers. [3]