Skip to main content
Urban Dictionary Merch
Your favorite words on things you can wear, drink from, read, or give to a friend.
The Urban Dictionary Store sells gifts you’ll have to explain.

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

www. youtube.com/ watch?v=KzePgXk6934
Not content with doing nothing and enjoying their win, the enemy team has instead chosen to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory - Phrase, common usage. Doing something stupid causing your team to lose when all you had to do was nothing.
Related Words

decearing egg 

An obscure Japanese phrase translated into English, originally comprising of the Japanese words egu egu egu e guegu. The phrase was discovered after delving very deeply into Google Translate. Its usage and context is generally unknown, although it seems to always be typed in all caps.
I copied and pasted a bunch of crap into Google Translate in Japanese and it translated to DECEARING EGG. Is Translate still that bad at Japanese?
decearing egg by Kenoscirneh June 26, 2017

decearing 

An adjective used to describe an egg, implying the egg is disgusting or somewhat unedable.
For example, if an egg is disgusting you may say "Dude, that was such a decearing egg!"
decearing by EggDaddyExpert June 23, 2017

Fleur Delacour 

An attractive, part-veela character in the Harry Potter series. She first appears in Goblet of Fire as a Triwizard champion and later on in Half Blood Prince. She is probably going to appear in the final book as it is supposed to start with her wedding with Bill Weasley.

Translates literally from French to "Flower of the Court"
I wish I looked like Fleur Delacour
Fleur Delacour by MarianneNZ November 10, 2006

no defeat 

An apparel line created by a couple of friends who came from next to nothing. they have a bomb ass logo that forms N.D. They are living proof that hard work, honor, and trust make shit happen. They are the next big thing.
My coach told me I'd never amount to anything with all my talent because I wouldn't conform to their rules.

no defeat, bitch. I'm in the finals.
no defeat by Clark Thunder Kent December 13, 2012

Defeater 

Defeater are a modern hardcore band from Boston who have gained a cult following among the hardcore underground with every amount of praise being completely earned. Defeater have only released one album and one EP, both of which being highly ambitious concept pieces. Their LP, Travels, chronicles the events preceding the suicide of a wayward man in which he kills his father and brother, and then mourns the death of his drug addicted mother. Their EP, Lost Ground, was written about a black World War II veteran who loses his entire infantry and then returns to the states just to be shunned by society, eventually turning to alcohol. Defeater will release their second LP, Empty Days and Sleepless Nights, in March of 2011.
Guy 1: "Hey man, you ready for the new Defeater album?"

Guy 2: "You mean Empty Days and Sleepless Nights? Hell yeah, it's album of the year for sure."
Defeater by whywontyoudie February 20, 2011
More from Urban Dictionary

Slop Grenade

When someone uses AI to generate a large document, slide deck, or piece of code/software and tosses it over the fence for you to deal with.
Chad: Hey Brent I sent you the new backend API change to review, it’s only 100 files changed.

Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
Slop Grenade by Joe Squid September 28, 2026
Word of the Day on September 29, 2026
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
After we broke up, he was floxi to me.
floxi by Dr. Geek May 13, 2009
Word of the Day on September 28, 2026
NYC people who migrate north to Quahog, RI to see the leaves in the fall.
New York and everyone from there can fornicate themselves with an iron stick.
leafers by ss++ February 8, 2005
Word of the Day on September 27, 2026

Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Respectfully by john quan the first December 20, 2020
Word of the Day on September 26, 2026

You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
Dante: "I wish I could be Nigerian, but I can't because I'm Chinese. You met me at a very Chinese time in my life."
Word of the Day on September 25, 2026
Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
Word of the Day on September 24, 2026
Load more