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The rulebook's way of saying you technically won, but no.
means The official act of ruling someone or something ineligible, often after the fact, because a rule was broken.
from Built from the Latin-rooted 'qualify' (from qualis, 'of what kind,' plus facere, 'to make') with the negating prefix 'dis-' bolted on. So underneath it's simply 'un-making' someone's qualification — the paperwork undoing what the scoreboard already gave them.
- origin
- from Latin dis- plus qualify, literally unfit
- olympics
- false starts once meant instant disqualification, no warning
- legal use
- can bar directors from running companies entirely
- irony
- often happens after the celebration already started