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- noun Plural form of
hoper .
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Examples
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Banks would turn from "hopers", hiding risks from themselves, into agents more engaged in economic activity.
Slugger O'Toole 2009
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Banks would turn from "hopers", hiding risks from themselves, into agents more engaged in economic activity.
Slugger O'Toole 2009
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Cue, frightfully important address by his majesty to assembled no hopers and futers Tesco workers when, over the intercom:
I’m Here For An Argument. No You’re Not! Yes I am! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Where will the money come from for you hopers when all the "rich" people are cut down to size?
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John Huston's unvarnished Fat City stars Stacey Keach and Jeff Bridges as boxing no-hopers, while Huston's Wise Blood sees Brad Dourif as a fiery southern preacher, with spiritual navigation issues.
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Most new businesses fail, and not simply because most would-be entrepreneurs are actually no-hopers.
Sink and Swim 2009
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Most new businesses fail, and not simply because most would-be entrepreneurs are actually no-hopers.
Sink and Swim 2009
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I'm not saying it was easy, but the training establishments are just full of institutionalised no hopers - many of whom are refugees from the classroom.
Teaching in 6 months ? Idiocy from Labour Norfolk Blogger 2009
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Our series on teaching philosophy in prison reflects on how even 'no-hopers' can gain from education
A key to happiness for prisoners with little future Alan Smith 2010
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The last chapter of Fall of Frost is a recapitulation of Dante's opening of the Divine Comedy, with Frost now cast in the thankless but endearing Virgilian role as the unsaveable guide to the hopers of salvation.
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