winningest
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- adjective
- /ˈwɪnɪŋɪst/
- Informal
- Geno Auriemma had been the winningest active men's and women's coaching tandem at one school across all NCAA divisions.
- the winningest coach
- the winningest team
- the winningest college
Examples
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Could that be Walter Alston, the winningest manager in the history of the Dodgers?
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Did you know that Joe and Phil Niekro are the winningest brothers tandem ever in history?
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Just like the best, winningest championship NBA teams do.
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They have the winningest Little League baseball record in the country.
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Oregon was mediocre for many years, and Bellotti, I believe, was the winningest coach they had ever had.
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He was the head coach at Indiana during the 80s and is to this day their winningest coach of all time.
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It is, of course, the 85-year-old coach, Joe Paterno, the winningest coach in Division I college football.
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"It's a great moment, and I'm excited," said Mora, the winningest first-year coach in UCLA history.
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Now in his 46th season as head coach, all spent at his alma mater, Philadelphia University, Magee is the winningest men's coach in NCAA history and is proud of this latest accomplishment.
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With 27 World Cup wins, Phil is the winningest American ski racer ever.
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Etymology
Winningest comes from the simple word win ('to be successful in a game'), plus -ing and the ending -est meaning 'most'. So winningest simply means 'having the most wins' or being 'the most successful', which is why we call a coach or team the winningest when they have more victories than anyone else.