Gets licked
The crossword clue "Gets licked" is answered by LOSES, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LOSES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOSES answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LOSES
Every other clue in this collection answered by LOSES, most used first.
- Misplaces - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
- Comes in last - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Finishes last - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Suffers defeat - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Mislays - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
- Comes up short - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Forfeits - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Places last - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Comes in second - used 12 times, most recently in 2012
- Gets whupped - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Is defeated - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Doesn't win - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Gets the booby prize - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Meets one's Waterloo - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Gets closer to - NEARS, used 79 times
- Gets up - RISES, used 70 times
- Gets ready - PREPS, used 42 times
- Gets better - HEALS, used 40 times
- Gets close to - NEARS, used 35 times
- Gets wind of - HEARS, used 32 times
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