Usually means: Final attempt to avoid failure.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word last ditch:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. last ditch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. last-ditch, last ditch: Merriam-Webster
  3. last-ditch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. last-ditch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. last-ditch, last-ditch, last ditch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. last-ditch: Vocabulary.com
  7. Last-Ditch, Last-ditch, last-ditch: Wordnik
  8. last-ditch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. last-ditch, last ditch: Wiktionary
  10. last-ditch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. last-ditch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. last-ditch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. last-ditch, last ditch: Dictionary.com
  14. last-ditch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Last Ditch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. last-ditch: Rhymezone
  17. last-ditch: FreeDictionary.org
  18. last-ditch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. last-ditch: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. last-ditch: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Last ditch)

▸ adjective:  Alternative form of last-ditch [(idiomatic) Final, as a last resort; done in desperation.]

Similar:
do or die, lastminute.com, all-in, hardluck, top-drawer, fed-up, hard-up, stop-gap, back when, at Death's door, more...

Opposite:
first resort, last resort

Phrases:
to die in the last ditch, last ditch effort, last ditch attempt, a last ditch effort, in a last ditch effort, more...

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Similar:
do or die, lastminute.com, all-in, hardluck, top-drawer, fed-up, hard-up, stop-gap, back when, at Death's door, more...

Opposite:
first resort, last resort

Phrases:
to die in the last ditch, last ditch effort, last ditch attempt, a last ditch effort, in a last ditch effort, more...



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