dead-ender
n.— «In only their first step into the New American Century, they have been famously blind-sided by a rabble of dead-enders in Iraq. They promised our boys and girls nothing but garlands and cheers by the populace, which turned out to be bullets and bombs.» —“Shapes, of Things to Come” by Phil Toler Axis of Logic May 12, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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