Mere decades ago, female losers in the marriage stakes dropped into the eternal, though joyless, girlhood of the old maid.

In double-elimination repechage, any loser in the championship bracket drops into the repechage bracket.

A consolation bracket is when losers drop from the primary championship bracket and compete for third place or a lesser consolation prize.

As for the other IRB tournaments, four quarterfinal losers dropped into the bracket for the Plate.

And the loser does not drop that far, because he has not been tested by the other superb fighters in the division.

He said that the loser of that game would drop to fourth or fifth in the polls.

The Bowl was contested by the third- and fourth-place finishers in each pool, with the losers in the Bowl quarterfinals dropping into the bracket for the Shield.

The loser would drop to fourth place, with 31 days to think about it.

The losers today had far more in common with each other - they each made 55 unforced errors and dropped their serve 7 times - than with their betters.

The four quarterfinal losers drop into the bracket for the Plate.