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bench warmer

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Noun1.bench warmer - (sports) a substitute who seldom plays
athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
second-stringer, substitute, reserve - an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced


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I think it helps my team's chemistry when I inform them of my experiences as a rejected candidate, a starter, and a bench warmer.
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Then again, it would allow a bench warmer at USC or UCLA to transfer to Ball State and start without sitting out a season.
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See Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Bench Warmer," The New Yorker, December 10, 2001, 84.
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