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run nowhere

English edit

Verb edit

run nowhere (third-person singular simple present runs nowhere, present participle running nowhere, simple past ran nowhere, past participle run nowhere)

  1. (horse racing, slang) To finish the race unplaced.

References edit

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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