bench-warmer
bench warmer
sub
warm the bench
carebear
nonimport
bench strength
practice squad
fresh legs
tight
baseliner
reserve
nonplayer
hacker
twelfth man
Jesse James
role player
amateur
supersub
scrub
bolter
playerish
lagger
tweener
calling station
semi-professional
backbencher
odd bod
undroppable
graveyard
zugzwang
scratch
muffin
bust
feeder
flat-track bully
third-party
pusher
first-string
dead zone
miss
stayaway
second-string
minmaxer
hero ball
noncompetitor
non-player character
workout warrior
Nash equilibrium
round game
blood substitution
bench
loot whore
incomplete
blood bin
cheesing
walk-on
goal suck
turn-based
second-stringer
substitute
survival game
shortstop
nomad
off one's game
ball-less
bye
squad
skill issue
liability
pass-and-play
disabled list
nongamer
pro-gamer
tomato can
formation
mob
most valuable player
hope chess
Muggle
one-on-one
monster
undrafted
inning
creator
oh for
muggle
cornerman
playership
co-selector
second string
laik
check
assist
nonfan
mark
playa
tight
playerish
semi-professional
scratch
first-string
second-string
turn-based
ball-less
pass-and-play
undrafted
bench-warmer
bench warmer
carebear
nonimport
bench strength
practice squad
fresh legs
baseliner
reserve
nonplayer
hacker
twelfth man
role player
amateur
supersub
scrub
bolter
lagger
tweener
calling station
sub
backbencher
odd bod
undroppable
graveyard
zugzwang
muffin
bust
feeder
flat-track bully
pusher
dead zone
stayaway
minmaxer
hero ball
noncompetitor
non-player character
workout warrior
Nash equilibrium
round game
blood substitution
loot whore
incomplete
blood bin
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walk-on
goal suck
second-stringer
substitute
survival game
shortstop
nomad
bye
squad
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liability
disabled list
nongamer
pro-gamer
tomato can
formation
mob
most valuable player
hope chess
Muggle
one-on-one
monster
inning
creator
oh for
muggle
cornerman
playership
co-selector
second string
assist
nonfan
playa
sub
warm the bench
third-party
miss
bench
laik
check
mark
verb
- Less commonly, and often as sub on, to bring on (a player) as a substitute.
- To replace (a player) with a substitute.
- To substitute for.
- To lend.
- To subscribe.
- To take a submissive role.
- To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating.
- To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education.
- To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample.
- To subtitle (usually a film or television program).
- To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit.
noun
- A substitute, often in sports or teaching.
- Subsistence money: part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished.
- A subtitle.
- A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun.
- A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does).
- A subcontractor.
- A subeditor.
- A submarine.
- A subwoofer.
- A subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
- A submissive.
- A subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.
prep
adj
- Of a player, who plays very few hands.
- Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
- Fitting close, or too close, to the body.
- Under high tension; taut.
- Unyielding or firm.
- Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
- Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.
- Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.
- Extraordinarily great or special.
- Not conceding many goals.
- Intimate, close, close-knit.
- A car with understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
- Intimately friendly.
- Angry or irritated.
- Miserly or frugal.
- Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
- Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
- Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
- Mean; unfair; unkind.
- Scarce, hard to come by.
- Limited or restricted.
adv
noun
- A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
- A reserve price in an auction.
- Wine held back and aged before being sold.
- A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
- Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
- The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
- A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
- A resist.
- Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
- A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
- In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
- A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)
- Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
- A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
- A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
verb
noun
- One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially a sport such as golf or tennis.
- Something that hacks; a tool or device for hacking.
- One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
- One who operates a taxicab.
- One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks.
- A fork-shaped tool used to harvest root vegetables.
- A computer security professional, a white-hat hacker.
- One who cuts with rough or heavy blows.
- One who kicks wildly or roughly.
- One who is consistent and focuses on accomplishing a task or several tasks.
noun
- A substitute player who significantly contributes to a team's success.
- In non-standard cricketing rules, a substitute player who is able to come on and replace any player at any point during the game, and to take over the other player's batting and bowling duties.
- A particularly well-equipped and powerful submarine (underwater vehicle).
noun
- One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
- One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.
- An instance of scrubbing.
- A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant
- Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
- One who scrubs.
- One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- A cancellation.
- A worn-out brush.
- One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
- An exfoliant for the body.
- Clothing worn while performing surgery.
- Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
verb
- To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
- To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
- To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
- To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
- To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
- To be diligent and penurious
- To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
adj
noun
- In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
- A horse that wins at long odds.
- A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
- A person who sifts flour or meal.
- A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
- A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
- A kind of fishing line; a boulter.
- A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
- A filter mechanism.
- An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
- A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
verb
noun
- A person who plays at two positions, not good enough at either to be restricted to it.
- A professional wrestler who is neutral or morally ambiguous; neither a face nor a heel, or showing no favoritism to either allegiance.
- A tweenager.
- A person, machine or piece of software that performs tweening.
- A boxer in various newcomer weight classes whose names often contain "super", "light" or "junior".
- A shot that is hit between the legs.
- A film that falls between two genres (and thus may not be easily marketed).
- A computing device that is smaller than a traditional laptop, but larger than a PDA.
noun
- A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.
- A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature.
- A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
- Someone who does not play an active role in a process.
adj
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
verb
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
noun
- A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.
- Another word for a roll, bap or cob, even one that isn’t flat or toasted.
- Term of endearment.
- A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine.
- Female pubic hair; female genitals (vulva, vagina), like muff.
- A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert).
- A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten; an English muffin.
- A charming, attractive young man.
verb
noun
- A player who fails to meet expectations.
- A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
- A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- A disappointment.
- The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
adj
verb
- For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- To arrest (someone) for a crime.
- To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- To break in (a woman or girl), To deflower
- To break.
- To exceed a score of 21.
- To break in (an animal).
- An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- To ejaculate; to eject semen.
- To refute an established opening.
- To lose all of one's chips.
- To reduce in rank.
noun
- A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
- One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
- A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
- A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
- A feeder ship.
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- A branch line of a railway.
- That which is used to feed.
- One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
- One who feeds, or takes in food.
verb
adj
noun
- A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
- A girl or woman.
- Synonym of banker (“type of railway locomotive”)
- Someone or something that pushes.
- An aircraft with the propeller behind the fuselage.
- A person employed to push passengers onto trains at busy times, so they can depart on schedule.
- A device that one pushes in order to transport a baby while on foot, such as a stroller or pram (as opposed to a carrier such as a front or back pack).
- A tolkach.
- A device in a coke oven for levelling the coal, traditionally operated by a pusherman.
- A drug dealer.
noun
- A region within the player's viewpoint that is less sensitive to small movements, aiding accurate firing of weapons etc.
- An area with no life.
- An area of the ocean where oxygen levels are too low to support life, especially as a result of pollution.
- A region where mobile phones do not operate because there is no base station or repeater nearby.
- Part of the field, entered by a player when they are on their opponent's side of the field but kicking a field goal would probably be unsuccessful and punting the ball would not dramatically change field position.
- Area near a fortification that is relatively sheltered from defending fire, because direct fire from other parts of the walls cannot be directed around a curved wall.
verb
- To fail to help the hand of a player.
- To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
- To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- To fail to attend.
- To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
- To fail to score (a goal).
- To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
- To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
- To avoid; to escape.
- To fail to achieve or attain.
- To fail to understand;
- To fail to hit.
noun
- A failure to obtain or accomplish.
- The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- A failure to hit.
- A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
- In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
- An unmarried woman; a girl.
- An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)
- A kept woman; a mistress.
noun
- A student athlete who wants to try out for a college sports/athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited.
- One who arrives and boards transport (such as a train or ferry) without having booked in advance.
- An actor of a small (or "bit") part in a theatrical production or film, often without speaking lines.
- Such a part in a play or film.
noun
- The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
- Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
- An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
- An unspecified way or place.
- A pass.
adj
intj
noun
- A person on a team that is more of a hindrance than a help.
- A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; an individual or action that exposes others to greater risk.
- Any item recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.
- The condition of being susceptible to something.
- An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
- The likelihood of something happening.
noun
- An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
- A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
- The act of assembling a group or structure.
- The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
- Something possessing structure or form.
- A layer of rock of common origin.
- A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
- The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
noun
- A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.
- A mob cap.
- See also: Mob, Mafia (proper noun senses for specific ones)
- A group of animals such as horses or cattle.
- mobile phone
- See also: Mob (the masses)
- A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
- A group of kangaroos.
- A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime.
- A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country.
- A flock of emus.
verb
noun
- A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games.
- A terrifying and dangerous creature.
- A bizarre or whimsical creature.
- A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
- Something unusually large.
- A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
- A badly behaved child, a brat.
adj
verb
- To harass.
- To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
- To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
- To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
noun
- A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
- A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
- A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
- A similar period of play.
verb
- To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- To inspect; to examine.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
- To leave in safekeeping.
- To control, limit, or halt.
- To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- To mark with a check pattern.
noun
- The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
- A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
- A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- An inspection or examination.
- A small chink or crack.
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
adj
verb
- To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
noun
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- The model number of a device; a device model.
- A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.
- One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- Attention.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- A characteristic feature.
- A written character or sign.
- A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
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