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runner-up
[ ruhn-er-uhp ]
noun
- the competitor, player, or team finishing in second place, as in a race, contest, or tournament.
- runners-up, the competitors who do not win a contest but who place ahead of the majority of the contestants and share in prizes or honors, as those who place second, third, and fourth, or in the top ten.
runner-up
noun
- a contestant finishing a race or competition in second place
Word History and Origins
Origin of runner-up1
Example Sentences
“I put on a dress and walked down, and ended up getting first runner-up,” she recalls.
Runner-Up: Pauline Etienne, Eden I could not take my eyes off this immensely talented Belgian actress.
You could, I suppose, broaden the definition of “runner-up” to include Romney.
Also on stage was runner-up Crystal Lee, a Chinese-American and Miss California 2013.
The book finished runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1960, second to Cry the Beloved Country.
I won one once—runner-up in the fifth flight over at San Gabriel.
However, as a traitor, I'm not even a runner-up with your father.
To be runner-up two years in succession stimulates the desire for the first place.
But in the final, Herd defeated me on the last green, and so I had to be content with the prize given for runner-up.
Drummond would have been almost a certainty for a silver medal, and Stanning would probably have been a runner-up.
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