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second-stringer

noun

Etymology

From second string + -er.

Definitions

  1. A person who plays second string. A person who is kept on a sports team as a backup in…

    A person who plays second string. A person who is kept on a sports team as a backup in case a "first-string" player is unavailable.

  2. A person who is not good enough to be considered proficient but may be useful as a backup.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for second-stringer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA