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Waterloo

[ waw-ter-loo, wot-er-, waw-ter-loo, wot-er-; Flemish vah-tuhr-loh ]

noun

  1. a village in central Belgium, south of Brussels: Napoleon decisively defeated here on June 18, 1815.
  2. a decisive or crushing defeat:

    The candidate met her Waterloo in the national elections.

  3. a city in E Iowa.
  4. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.


Waterloo

/ ËŒ·Éɔ˳Ùəˈ±ô³ÜË /

noun

  1. a small town in central Belgium, in Walloon Brabant province south of Brussels: battle (1815) fought nearby in which British and Prussian forces under the Duke of Wellington and Blücher routed the French under Napoleon. Pop: 29 003 (2004 est)
  2. a total or crushing defeat (esp in meet one's Waterloo )
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Since then, she said she "fell head first" into the industry, which was "kind of mental", and she recently joined the cast of BBC drama Waterloo Road for the latest series.

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As a teen, I was addicted to programmes such as Waterloo Road and Skins, which, like soaps, followed the lives of a community who found themselves embroiled in increasingly outlandish plot lines.

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An adventurous cat had to be collected from London Waterloo station by her owner after taking a train into the capital from Surrey.

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A man who died weeks after reportedly being pushed down an escalator at London's Waterloo station has prompted a police appeal for witnesses.

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But of course the big news in Europe this week was Macron’s slow-motion Waterloo moment, a tale of hubris and karmic payback if ever there was one.

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