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runner-up
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Word definitions for runner-up in dictionaries
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.
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. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the competitor who finishes second [syn: second best ] [also: runners-up (pl)]
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.
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.