stumer

English

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Noun

stumer (plural stumers)

  1. (British) Something worthless or counterfeit.
  2. (UK, slang) A racehorse that is sure to lose.
    • 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
      […] the agony of having put his little all on a stumer that hadn't finished in the first six.

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