'third string' definitions:
Synonyms of 'third string'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- back seat,
- backup,
- cast,
- change,
- changeling,
- company,
- comparison,
- complement,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- crew,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- eight,
- eleven,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- first string,
- first team,
- five,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- imitation,
- inferiority,
- juniority,
- locum tenens,
- lowliness,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- minority,
- next best thing,
- nine,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- platoon,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- rowing crew,
- second fiddle,
- second string,
- second team,
- secondariness,
- secondary,
- servility,
- sign,
- spares,
- squad,
- stand-in,
- string,
- sub,
- subjection,
- subordinacy,
- subordination,
- subservience,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- team,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- varsity,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent