lāo​běn​r

to win back losses

  • created sense approved 捞本儿/撈本兒 · lāo​běn​r · to win back losses — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    捞本儿 / 撈本兒

    lāo​běn​r

    to win back losses

    to recoup one's investment or gambling losses; to get one's money's worth

    捞本 (literal) → 捞本/撈本 · lāo​běn · to win back losses 儿 (bound) → 儿/兒 · r · [erhua suffix]

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense