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English

1. Waterloo (Belgium)
2. Waterloo, Belgium (the place of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815)
3. disastrous defeat; crushing defeat
4. Battle of Waterloo (1815)
5. (fig.) a defeat

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 城鎮名；位於比利時中部，係拿破崙軍隊喺1815年戰役打敗仗嘅所在地
2. 由滑鐵盧之役，引申指慘敗

Examples

• 慘遭滑鐵盧

  to meet one's Waterloo; to suffer a disastrous defeat

• 法國人在滑鐵盧之役吃了敗仗。

  The French lost the battle of Waterloo.

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