"sixth man" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sixth men",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "sixth man (plural sixth men)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Basketball",
          "orig": "en:Basketball",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        },
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A player who is not a starter but comes off the bench much more often than other reserves."
      ],
      "id": "en-sixth_man-en-noun-9wfkbkf2",
      "links": [
        [
          "basketball",
          "basketball"
        ],
        [
          "player",
          "player"
        ],
        [
          "starter",
          "starter"
        ],
        [
          "bench",
          "bench"
        ],
        [
          "reserve",
          "reserve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(basketball) A player who is not a starter but comes off the bench much more often than other reserves."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "basketball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Clem Haskins, Marc Ryan, Clem Haskins: Breaking Barriers, page 143",
          "text": "Our sixth man, the Williams Arena crowd, was into the game, all 15,491 of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "By extension, a person or group who is not part of a team, but who supports or contributes to the success of the team."
      ],
      "id": "en-sixth_man-en-noun-FdK0nzH5"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "sixth man"
  ],
  "word": "sixth man"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sixth men",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "sixth man (plural sixth men)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Basketball"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A player who is not a starter but comes off the bench much more often than other reserves."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "basketball",
          "basketball"
        ],
        [
          "player",
          "player"
        ],
        [
          "starter",
          "starter"
        ],
        [
          "bench",
          "bench"
        ],
        [
          "reserve",
          "reserve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(basketball) A player who is not a starter but comes off the bench much more often than other reserves."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "basketball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Clem Haskins, Marc Ryan, Clem Haskins: Breaking Barriers, page 143",
          "text": "Our sixth man, the Williams Arena crowd, was into the game, all 15,491 of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "By extension, a person or group who is not part of a team, but who supports or contributes to the success of the team."
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "sixth man"
  ],
  "word": "sixth man"
}