"bench-warmer" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bench-warmer.wav [Southern-England] Forms: bench-warmers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bench-warmer (plural bench-warmers)
  1. (sports, colloquial) A player who rarely or never gets to play in the games or matches, and is most often a substitute. Tags: colloquial Categories (topical): People, Sports Related terms: warm the bench Translations (substitute player): vilttiketjulainen (Finnish), Bankdrücker [masculine] (German), Bankdrückerin [feminine] (German), calientabanca [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), bänknötare [common-gender] (Swedish)

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