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• n  an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
• s  being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team

• Retorted Sullivan, in what has become the classic second-stringer's revenge, "Where's Johnson?" Though this has an element of the private joke, Lacy and Rounds are so humanly .
• The crowd that had been yelling Iliad home stared as a new horse moved out of the packBlenheim, the Aga Khan's second-stringer.
• In Trainer Woody Stephens' barn and heart, Swale started the year a second-stringer.

• substitute
• reserve
• second-string

News & Articles

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• Tebow signs reported two-year deal with Pats
  Tim Tebow practiced with starter Tom Brady and second-stringer Ryan Mallett at New England's minicamp. He was wearing No. 5 on his helmet and shorts, not No. 15, which belongs to Mallett.
  June 11, 2013 - The Tampa Tribune