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benchwarmer noun a substitute player on a sports team US, 1905- Presidential Campaigner Estes Kefauver explained to Drake University students in Des Moines how he achieved fame: “I was just a benchwarmer on the University of Tennessee football team.” — Time, p. 39, 17 March 1952
- “When the team is so far ahead that it doesn’t matter, you let the poor little bench-warmers come in for an inning or two.” — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 223, 1957
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