Winklevi
Second place finishers, runner-ups, honorable mentions...basically, all those who just weren't quite good enough.
Do you remember the guy Michael Phelps beat by a split second? He was such a winklevi...
Winklevie
To act like the Winklevoss twins, that is:
To contend or vie for something again and again, always without success - and sometimes to the point of being labeled an asshole.
To contend or vie for something again and again, always without success - and sometimes to the point of being labeled an asshole.
Team rocket winklevies for Pikachu every episode, man. It's not going to happen.
winklevied
Winklevied is a verb used to describe a situation when somebody acts as though they are helping you, but in reality they are undermining you. The term came into popular use after the Facebook Movie, after Mark Zuckerberg's betrayal of the Winklevoss twins.
I thought Richard was helping me write my data science book, but instead I was being winklevied. He was really delaying me, while working on his own data science book.