deserves to lose adj.
[common] Said of someone who willfully does the Wrong Thing; humorously, if one uses a
feature known to be marginal. What
is meant is that one deserves the consequences of one's losing actions. "Boy, anyone who tries to
use mess-dos deserves to lose!" (ITS fans
used to say the same thing of Unix;
many still do.) See also screw, chomp, bagbiter.