Mercy Loss

When playing Call of Duty or a similar First Person Shooter and your team is playing so bad that you intentionally lose to end the match quicker.

"Oh man, I'm getting kill raped all over the place"
"yea I know I'm 1 for 10, lets just lose, we'll put this one down as a mercy loss"

by TheShackle April 24, 2009

complicated loss

n. a loss (i.e., at competitive sports), for a large number of reasons which are somehow related, and which requires devoted thought to fully comprehend.

The attacks of September 11, 2001 amount to a complicated loss.

by [classified.02] November 12, 2010

Tax-Loss Harvesting

Tax-loss harvesting is a technique used to lower your taxes while maintaining the expected risk and return profile of your portfolio. It harvests previously unrecognized investment losses to offset taxes due on your other gains and income.

Tax-Loss Harvesting can significantly increase your portfolio's after tax returns.

by Finance guy October 9, 2012

counter-loss prevention

Counter-loss prevention is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that shoplifters and sport thieves adopt to address and diffuse obstacles presented by loss prevention personnel from within retail store environments. Counter-loss prevention is an expansive subject.

The practice of loss prevention is open to hired agencies (such as those within the retailer) or law enforcement in general. Many shoplifters do not need counter loss prevention fail safes considering the nature of their jack, but some persons do dare threaten jacks using legal technicality. The theory of counter-loss prevention concerns the line between theft into robbery.

"Counter-loss prevention has become prolific in the advent of electronic surveillance entrapment, lulz, not wanting to pay for your shit for the lulz, personal aspirations of "survival theft" skills, or contest towards loss prevention. It is important to consider implementing counter-loss prevention into your kikel."

by robotlegcommando December 18, 2012

retail loss prevention

When someone steals in a store. Whether or not it is a worker or a shopper

The school store had a retail loss but the manager is creating a retail loss prevention group retail lossprevention

by smartdefinitions 10003430 December 13, 2017

Matt Lissack

Desperate, starving, thirsty, obsessive

You love submitting words to the Urban Dictionary, you're such a Matt Lissack!!

by onthedeck1032 January 24, 2019

Signal Loss

A term for musicians when their electronic signal is affected negatively by the number of pedals they have.

Signal loss isn’t “Wow it’s got a cool distortion on it!”

Signal loss is “Wow, why do I sound like ass?”

Your pedals are creating some signal loss, you should get a buffer pedal.

by Nitswah April 10, 2019