1. To breathe hard after exertion or to be unable to catch your breath after an activity.

2. To lose any chance of winning after a certain point.

The two states of being are as a human being, or a hungry ghost. Semi-regularly you need to ask yourself which you are. Sometimes it is human. Others, alas, it is hungry ghost.

The hungry ghost seeks validity outside of themselves. Someone pining for an indifferent ex is a hungry ghost. Someone who arrives alone at 6:30 on Saturday night to a pub is probably a hungry ghost. Obsessive checking of mobile phones, chat sites or networks are clear signs that one is a hungry ghost.

The best thing to do is just stay home and ride it out. Read a book. Find some good clean fun.

In business, to perform very poorly.

v. (1) To be left in the dust, as in a race or other competition.

(2) Can also be used in the general sense meaning to suck or to lose.

(3) To remove something's momentum (usually in combination with "out of their sails").

(4) A negative dismissal in the tradition of fuck off or go to hell, but without the obscenity.

What one does after exhausting themselves, usually during training for an athletic competition.

to be out of breath because of running so you are breathing heavily

The act of forcefully inhaling most likely due to strenous excercise or rigor.