snakebitten
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snakebitten
- (US) Alternative form of snakebit
- 2009 January 12, Judy Battista, “Steelers Dominate Chargers to Reach A.F.C. Title Game”, in New York Times[1]:
- And that is when the Chargers, snakebitten for so long in the playoffs, began their inexorable slide.
- 2010 May 5, Alistair MacDonald, Joe Parkinson, “Brown Scrambles for Votes as U.K. Poll Nears”, in The Wall Street Journal:
- Since then, his campaign sometimes seemed snake-bitten as it dodged hecklers and a drumbeat of presumptuous questions about life after No. 10 Downing Street.