benchwarmer
or bench warm·er, bench-warm·er
[ bench-wawr-mer ]
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nounSports.
a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
Origin of benchwarmer
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How to use benchwarmer in a sentence
He may not even be called a bench-warmer—the bench is already warm.
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