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- noun sports (colloquial) A
player who rarely or never gets to play in the games or matches, and is most often asubstitute .
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Examples
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He says he received a "phenomenal" education and became a starter on the football team rather than a bench-warmer as he might have been at Yale.
Before They Were Titans, Moguls and Newsmakers, These People Were...Rejected Sue Shellenbarger 2010
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Milicic's anticipated role of versatile post player quickly morphed into that of bench-warmer.
Reader ballots tab Bowie as biggest NBA draft bust ever 2008
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He says he received a "phenomenal" education and became a starter on the football team rather than a bench-warmer as he might have been at Yale.
Before They Were Titans, Moguls and Newsmakers, These People Were...Rejected Sue Shellenbarger 2010
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Why would they settle for a student council president, a pep club leader, a bench-warmer on the basketball team, when they could have him?
The Disc Jockey 2010
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Or would schools pay stars such as Cam Newton more than a little-used bench-warmer?
Do college athletes deserve to get paid? Fred Bowen 2010
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He says he received a "phenomenal" education and became a starter on the football team rather than a bench-warmer as he might have been at Yale.
Before They Were Titans, Moguls and Newsmakers, These People Were...Rejected Sue Shellenbarger 2010
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A bench-warmer senator-actor had announced days ago that he will be vying for the vice presidency in 2010 general elections.
Idolatry Nomadicasian 2008
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Fool or tool, as a longtime theological philosopher and ID bench-warmer he has now apparently lost the ability to analyze papers and think for himself.
Denial, the first step towards recovery of despair - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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If Duke had a notably weak lacrosse team rather than a contender for the national title before their season was canceled in 2006, and Seligmann had been a bench-warmer rather than a starter on that hypothetically very weak team, then the claim that Brown was “standing up for truth and justice” by accepting him would not be quite so implausible.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Brown University Welcomes Duke Rape Case Victim: 2007
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QRU chief executive Jim Carmichael admitted it was a hard call to make but was in the best interests of both parties after Chambers had struggled with being a bench-warmer.
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