Reverse Dictionary: DISADVANTAGE

ADJECTIVES
1200 ► UNBIHEVE disadvantageous, unprofitable → obs.
1386 ► DAMAGEOUS fraught with damage, hurtful, injurious; causing loss or disadvantage → obs.
1603 ► UNADVANTAGEABLE not advantageous or profitable, disadvantageous → obs.
1821 ► UNDER THE LAND at a disadvantage → US sl.
1900 ► UNDER THE WHIP at a disadvantage → Aust. sl.
1906 ► UP THE POLE in a bad way; at a disadvantage → Aust. sl.
1924 ► ON THE BACK FOOT in a defensive position; at a disadvantage → colloq
1950 ► UNDER THE COSH in trouble, at a disadvantage → sl.
1950 ► UNDER THE HAMMER in trouble, at a disadvantage → sl.
1954 ► IN A CROSS in trouble; at a disadvantage → US sl.

NOUNS
1200 ► UNBIHEVE disadvantage, detriment → obs.
1200 ► UNFREME disadvantage, loss → obs.
1205 ► UNBIHOOF disadvantage, detriment → obs.
1205 ► UNNEOD disadvantage, loss → obs.
1250 ► UNFRAME disadvantage, loss → obs.
1398 ► DAMAGE a disadvantage, inconvenience, trouble → obs.
1530 ► WORSE END OF THE STAFF the disadvantage → colloq.
1830 ► SNAG an impediment or obstacle; also, a disadvantage, a hitch; a defect
1833 ► AMPLISH a disadvantage → Irish sl.
1843 ► AMPLUSH a disadvantage, state of unreadiness → Ireland
1895 ► DENIAL a disadvantage, detriment, hindrance; loss, injury; a disappointment → Eng. dial.
1897 ► ODD NUMBER a mistake, an error of judgement, a disadvantage → Eng. dial.
1959 ► MONKEY ON ONE’S BACK a burden or great disadvantage; a source of emotional pressure → Amer. colloq.

NOUNS, PERSON
1739 ► HAVE-NOT a person who has little or nothing of something, esp. money or material possessions; a poor or disadvantaged person → colloq.

PHRASES
M16. ► IN ONE’S LURCH at a disadvantage → sl.
1951 ► CAUGHT IN THE WEWOKA SWITCH utterly lost; in an untenable, dangerous, or disadvantageous position → Amer. dial.

VERBS
M16. ► HAVE IN LURCH to have at a disadvantage → sl.
M16. ► TAKE AT LURCH to have at a disadvantage → sl.
1781 ► HARP AGAINST A PERSON to insinuate to his disadvantage → Eng. dial.
1833 ► AMPLISH to place at a disadvantage → Irish sl.
1848 ► AMPLUSH to place at a disadvantage; to reduce to a dilemma, to confuse in argument → Sc. & Ireland
1872 ► POSSESS THE DEAD-WOOD to have one at a disadvantage, or the like → US sl.
L19.. ► FADE to put at a disadvantage, to cause problems for someone → US sl.
L19.. ► HAVE SOMEONE FADED to have someone at a disadvantage → US sl.
20C.. ► BAT A STICKY WICKET to be at or have a disadvantage → Brit. sl.
20C.. ► CAUGHT HOLDING ONE’S DICK to be caught in an embarrassing or generally disadvantageous situation → US sl.
1905 ► RAISE ONE DOWNSTAIRS to get a disadvantage instead of an advantage → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1940 ► HAVE GOT SOMEONE FADED to have someone at a disadvantage → Can. sl.
1950 ► HAVE UNDER THE COSH to have at a disadvantage → sl.
1959 ► BE A MONKEY ON A PERSON’S BACK to be a disadvantage, burden, or worry to a person
1999 ► CATCH SOMEONE ON THE WRONG FOOT to take someone unprepared or at a disadvantage → (Bk.)