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bench jockey
noun
in a team sport, a substitute player, especially one who makes his opinion known from the bench US, 1939- — Parke Cummings, Dictionary of Baseball, p. 5, 1950
- What I can’t understand is why professional baseball players are highly praised as bench jockeys, but professional football players are considered ding-a-ling for doing the same thing. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 1H, 19 April 1959
- — American Speech, pp. 158–159, May 1960: “The burgeoning of ‘jockey’”
- In the end, the bench jockeys and the bullpen carried the Cubs home in their first NLCS game on the road. — Baltimore Sun, p. 1C, 11 October 2003
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