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Waterloo

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Waterloo /ˌwɔːtəˈluː/

▶noun (usu. meet one's Waterloo) a decisive defeat or failure.

– origin Waterloo, a village in what is now Belgium, site of a battle in 1815 in which Napoleon was finally defeated.

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