Associations to the word «Underdog»

Wiktionary

UNDERDOG, noun. A competitor thought unlikely to win.
UNDERDOG, noun. Somebody at a disadvantage.
UNDERDOG, noun. A high swing wherein the person pushing the swing runs beneath the swing while the person being pushed is at the forward limit of the arc.

Dictionary definition

UNDERDOG, noun. One at a disadvantage and expected to lose.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope