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Second Fiddle

nounid 126868·updated May 18, 2026
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someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role

polysemousMWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
second banana
plural
Second Fiddles
possessive
Second Fiddle's
pluralpossessive
Second Fiddles'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
a secondary role or function
§2
someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role

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