third-rater
- 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.