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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne