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One climbing quickly — not the winner, though
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runner-up
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Word definitions for runner-up in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the competitor who finishes second [syn: second best ] [also: runners-up (pl)]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A runner-up is a participant who finishes in second place in any of a variety of competitive endeavors, especially sporting events and beauty pageants ; in the latter instance, the term is applied to more than one of the highest-ranked non-winning contestants, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB finish ▪ We actually played eight rounds of the Open, and six of them with Dave Thomas, who finished runner-up . ▪ Heupel lost out on the Heisman Trophy, finishing runner-up to Weinke, but he won the big game that mattered. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1842, originally in dog racing, "dog that loses only the final race;" see runner + up . General sense is from 1885.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 The person who finishes second, or in any position after the first. 2 Second favorite. n. 1 The person who finishes second, or in any position after the first. 2 Second favorite.
Usage examples of runner-up.
SF Sudoku puzzle, the subject of which was suggested by sudoku contest runner-up Rebecca Mayr, is solved using the letters AERIKNRST.
One was a consumer advocate for CBS television, a former runner-up to Miss North Carolina in the Miss America contest, thirty years old, rather puckishly committed to a variation on the original Ann-Margret coiffure which, given all proper due, admirably suited her auburn hair, opinionated, contentious beyond belief, and directly responsible for a Xerox price rollback that had cost the firm nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
The witenagemot would elect a new king, no doubt, and the runner-up would immediately challenge.
Both were excellent boxers, as you know, and Barricharan was runner-up to Foulkes in the Victor Ludorum in athletics.
Ressler recognizes: Linus Pauling, Nobel laureate, supreme figure of American chemistry, he of vitamin C and the covalent bond, structural elucidator of any number of organic molecules, and nip-and-tuck runner-up to the three-dimensional solution of DNA.
It was a pertinent question and Bandar now noticed that attached to the lapel of his robe were the pin and pendant of a runner-up for the Fezzani Prize, a notable academic achievement.
There, dressed up as kindly old Mother Paula herself, was none other than Kimberly Lou Dixon, the former Miss America runner-up.
Her name suggested a second runner-up for a Junior Miss pageant, or maybe a budding actress whose real name is Wanda Maxine Smith.
The second runner-up will be awarded a fifty-dollar savings bond, and the first runner-up will be awarded a shopping spree in Toy City.
It's great to go to-we're league champions in basketball and our square-dance team is state runner-up and we have a swell sock hop every Wednesday.