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underdog

[ UK /ˌʌndədˈɒɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈəndɝˌdɔɡ/ ]
NOUN
  1. one at a disadvantage and expected to lose

How To Use underdog In A Sentence

  • True to form, most bodyboarders know their sport is an underdog and they tend to buy products from companies that support bodyboarding, like No Friends and ebodyboarding. com. Robbie Gennet: Every Break Will Change
  • The Cats are underdogs for sure, but that unjustifiably huge spread is going to help motivate them and becalm the Pokes. End up like a 'dog that's been beat too much (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • We will be huge underdogs in the quarter-finals but we have nothing to lose
  • Ultimately, despite the largely uncredited work of the skilled St. Louis cast and crew, the general familiarity with its underdog story type, coupled with the undefined ensemble cast, ultimately bring it down.
  • Swindon were competent but, in common with many of the underdog teams playing over the weekend, simply lacked the guile or spark to score. Times, Sunday Times
  • It might also have to do with having been the underdog for so long so that women kind of scrabble in these different jobs. The End Of The Macho Man?
  • The term underdog usually isn't associated with the California University of Pennsylvania football team. Post-gazette.com - News
  • If none of the underdogs win you're a winner. The Sun
  • The underdogs in any fight usually prepare body and mind meticulously before stepping into the ring.
  • But, of all the alleged verities, putting faith in a trainer's predictions for a chinny fighter whom bookies rate a 9-2 underdog against a 1-8 counter-punching genius is as perilous a challenge to logic and the fates as exists in sport. Floyd Mayweather Jr v Victor Ortiz - as it happened | Steve Busfield
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