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loner
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who avoids the company or assistance of others [syn: lone wolf , lone hand ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who avoids company," 1946; see lone . Apparently first in U.S. baseball slang (earliest reference is to Ted Williams).\n\nTed is likable enough in spite of his obsession with his specialty. He is something of a "loner," and he refuses to pal around ...
Usage examples of loner.
But still, we thought we were dealing with an independent-minded bonder, a hardworking loner.
We both hailed from Long Island and we were both quintessential loners who had long ago escaped into solitary pursuits, his being photography, mine writing.
The guns came down and bore on one of the loners he had been looking at, a short, stoutish boy who was wearing a battered green silk vest.
Wilson Tenney or some other cruel loner up here, browsing, maybe even buying.
Hugh told them the scabrous story about the loner so fabu5 lously endowed that he was known as the Gatha Entire.
Anyway, what matters is that you are essentially a loner, a one man band, while Hardanger is just as essentially an organisation man.
Tregares first thought was that it could be a dal Nardo move, but Ingalls said the other fighter was a loner, fresh in from hunting bushstompers south of the Slab Jumbles.
The standover man is a loner, a predator who preys on other, more prosperous criminals, often extremely dangerous ones.
Even strigs, the loners that lived outside the nests, sought out contact.
You have to queue, and pay good money, to mingle with vituperative interpreters and flashlight-faced Japanese, balls-talking bumblers, vultures, students, loners, pick-ups, the determined samplers and consumers spun off by the thrashing city.
He was holed up in a service-flat block off Marble Arch a high-priced dosshouse for middle-management loners and transients, with the strict feel of the ward or the lab: fifty units of downward mobility, observable under controlled conditions.
Waller was at Needhelp for a spell, them two old loners got along like rum and butter.
Erratic, impulsive and imperious, Suarez has morphed into the delusional loner we once predicted of his predecessor, the tightly wound Joe Carollo.
Chapter Seven RV trianguli was an A3 giant, something of a loner as stars went.
In the submarine sanctum of the club itself you will find a Playboy pinball machine (the artwork depicts Hef flanked by two playmates in their nighties), a video game with a handwritten Out of Order notice taped to its screen, some backgammon tables, a wall of framed centrefolds, and an oval bar where two or three swarthy loners sit slumped over their drinks, staring at the waitresses with an air of parched and scornful gloom.