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• lose: [MIT] vi. 1. To fail. A program loses when it encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the expected manner.
  2. To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky. 3....
• win [MIT; now common everywhere] 1. vi. To succeed.
  A program wins if no unexpected conditions arise, or (especially) if it sufficiently robust to take exceptions in stride....
• win: [MIT] 1. vi. To succeed. A program wins if no unexpected conditions arise, or (especially) if it sufficiently {robust} to take exceptions in stride.
  2. n. Success, or a specific instance thereof....
• deserves to lose adj. [common] Said of someone who willfully does the Wrong Thing
  humorously, if one uses a feature known to be marginal....
• deserves to lose: adj. Said of someone who willfully does the {Wrong Thing}
  humorously, if one uses a feature known to be {marginal}....
• bagbiter: /bag'bi:t-*r/ n. 1. Something, such as a program or a computer, that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy manner.
  This text editor won't let me make a file with a line longer than 80 characters!...
• Win or lose, you lose.
• crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• Hill's Comment on Murphy's Law: 1. If we lose much by having things go wrong, take all possible care.
  2. If we have nothing to lose by change, relax....