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second-drawer

second-drawer adjective: second-rate; mediocre.

Adjective

second-drawer (not comparable)

  1. Second-rate; mediocre.
    • […] which contains a much larger proportion of the kind of second-drawer poems which do not quite come off in terms of total response but which poets are often reluctant to abandon because they are technically competent and a good deal of work has gone into them.1978, Canadian Literature, numbers 78-79, page 84
    Antonyms:
    top-drawer

Antonyms of second-drawer

Questions about second-drawer

What does second-drawer mean?
Second-drawer means second-rate; mediocre.
What part of speech is second-drawer?
Second-drawer is an adjective.

Words near second-drawer in the dictionary

  1. second-degree murder
  2. second-degree murders
  3. second-degree relative
  4. second-degree relatives
  5. second-division
  6. second-drawer
  7. second-from-last
  8. second-gear valuation
  9. second-gear valuations
  10. second-generation
  11. second-growth forest

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