Meets one's Waterloo

The answer

LOSES

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOSES answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 4 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 licked - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• 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

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.

• On one's toes - ALERT, used 150 times
• Take as one's own - ADOPT, used 111 times
• Blow one's top - ERUPT, used 95 times
• Light on one's feet - AGILE, used 84 times
• Speak one's mind - OPINE, used 54 times
• Got to one's feet - STOOD, used 45 times

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