nineteenth man
Britishnoun
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Australian rules football the first reserve in a team
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any person acting as a reserve or substitute
Example Sentences
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Do you realize that you are the nineteenth man that I've met in the last three days running about naked in the woods?
From Frenzied Fiction by Leacock, Stephen
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