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• n  one who is third-rate or distinctly inferior

• A few weeks ago, in Baltimore, gentle Giant Simon had been licked by a third-rater named Jim Thompson.
• After all, Fritzie figured, he had only been knocked out twice in his life, once by one Milt Aron, another time, with considerable insistence, by a third-rater named Laddie .
• Before last week's nontitle fight (Sergeant Montgomery will not defend his title for the duration), Moran was a third-rater with dim prospects.

Quotes

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• Pervez Musharraf in Center for Research on Globalization
  Asif Zardari is a criminal and a fraud,Musharraf told me. "He'll do anything to save himself. He's not a patriot and he's got no love for Pakistan. He's a third-rater."