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second-stringers

second-stringers is the plural of second-stringer.

Meaning of second-stringer

Noun

second-stringer (plural second-stringers)

  1. 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.

Questions about second-stringers

What is second-stringers the plural of?
Second-stringers is the plural of second-stringer.

Words near second-stringers in the dictionary

  1. second-storey workers
  2. second-story man
  3. second-story men
  4. second-string
  5. second-stringer
  6. second-stringers
  7. second-system effect
  8. second-system effects
  9. second-system syndrome
  10. second-system syndromes
  11. second-teamer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: second-stringers (page history and authors); second-stringer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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