'second string' definitions:
Definition of 'second string'
(from WordNet)
noun
A squad of players that are available either individually or as a team to relieve or replace the players who started the game
Synonyms of 'second string'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- back seat,
- backup,
- cast,
- change,
- changeling,
- common,
- company,
- comparison,
- complement,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- crew,
- demeaning,
- deputy,
- disadvantaged,
- double,
- dummy,
- eight,
- eleven,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- first string,
- first team,
- five,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humble,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- imitation,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- inferiority,
- infra dig,
- junior,
- juniority,
- less,
- lesser,
- locum tenens,
- low,
- lower,
- lowliness,
- lowly,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- minor,
- minority,
- modest,
- next best thing,
- nine,
- ordinary,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- platoon,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- rowing crew,
- second fiddle,
- second rank,
- second team,
- secondariness,
- secondary,
- servile,
- servility,
- sign,
- spares,
- squad,
- stand-in,
- string,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- subjection,
- subordinacy,
- subordinate,
- subordination,
- subservience,
- subservient,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- team,
- third rank,
- third string,
- token,
- underprivileged,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- varsity,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vulgar