Winner
/wi-nər/
1. n. An unexpectedly good situation, program, programmer, or person.
"So it turned out I could use a lexer generator instead of hand-coding my own pattern recognizer. What a win!"
2. 'real winner': Often sarcastic, but also used as high praise (see also the note under user).
"He's a real winner -- never reports a bug til he can duplicate it and send in an example."
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