Related Clues:

• Word before "face" or "heart"
• Shake, as one's tail?
• Avoid John's broadcast
• Be on the wrong side of a rout
• Have the high score in a golf tournament
• Fail to get the W
• Finish last, say
• Take an L
• Gamble away
• Get upset?
• Suffer a major defeat
• Fail to keep to having a shave
• Go bankrupt in Monopoly, e.g
• have a bad day on the field
• Verbally, gents perhaps take a beating