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• n  a person who hopes
  only an avid hoper could expect the team to win now

• Funny you call me a "hoper.
• Ned Rose is the title figure, a no-hoper in early middle age, who checks the oxygen levels in the 16 ponds of a Mississippi catfish farm.
• Once viewed as a no-hoper for the nomination, notable only for his vehement opposition to the war in Iraq, Dean is increasingly forcing his party's other candidates to adjust .

News & Articles

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• Late goal costs Menlo women a season-opening soccer win
  by Palo Alto Online Sports Menlo College roundup Sophomore Jocelyn Aguilar scored a goal for the Menlo College women's soccer team on Monday, but that was all the offense the Lady Oaks could muster in a 2-1 loss in double overtime to visiting Hoper International in a nonconference contest.
  Sept. 2, 2013 - Palo Alto Weekly

Quotes

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• Jerome Rothen in Sunday Mirror
  Rothen wrote: "I don't think William Gallas will mind me talking about how he used to be a no-hoper." "At school he was a right wally - he would sit at the back of the class as far away from the blackboard as possible." "One day the...
• Alex Arthur in Sportinglife.com
  Arthur said: "Most of the Scottish and British boxing media have already written me off as a big underdog - almost a no-hoper. But, while I readily admit that I am the underdog, all those dismal Jimmies writing me off as a loser forget that, while...
• Stewart Downing in Times Online
  Stewart Downing said: "I think I was a very anxious person before Andorra. I don't think I really knew myself, or what I wanted, at all. But after 90 minutes of pitiful scampering about against no-hoper opposition, everything suddenly fell into...