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bench verb- to remove someone from competition US, 1917
Originally a sports term–the player literally returned to the bench during a game. Later applied to a variety of situations. - Zippy Sheree North will come to bat for the benched Marilyn Monroe in “How to Be Very, Very Popular” next month. — San Francisco News, p. 13, 25 January 1955
- If you believed Sen. Hubert Horatio Humphrey really benched himself after that Presidential primary in West Virginia, take another look. — San Francisco News Call-Bulletin, p. 18, 9 June 1960
- to reprimand someone US
- — Vann Wesson, Generation X Field Guide and Lexicon, p. 18, 1997
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