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Second Banana

nounid 139304·updated May 18, 2026
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someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role

polysemousMWE

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Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
second fiddlestraight man
plural
Second Bananas
possessive
Second Banana's
pluralpossessive
Second Bananas'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role
§2
a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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