also-rans

also-ran['ɔ:lsəuræn]

• n.
  • (在赛马或赛狗中没取得前三名的)落选的马(或狗)，未获名次的马(或狗)
  • 难得获胜的运动员(或队)
  • [口语](赛跑、竞赛、竞争等的)失败者，输者；(竞选的)落选者
  • [口语]无足轻重的人(或竞争者)；庸碌之辈，平庸的人，庸才；凡人；没出息的人；劣等品[此词也可用作集合名词]
  • [用复数]配角，跑龙套

• east coasts
• procoagulant
• bring into existence
• chafing dish
• likabilities
• fade-in
• superhero
• racketeerings
• fast one
• chulas
• cermets
• coruscations
• persecuting
• dirty-trickster
• drop press
• childproof
• Gleason, Jackie
• thrashings
• panatrophy
• vice-
• pooftahs
• tegafur
• control area
• petiolate
• Quebec
• meet up with
• Benlate
• injurias
• quatorzain
• misbelieving
• self-starting synchronous motor
• sally forth/out
• striolet
• Roscoe
• Homocoela
• publishest
• overdraught
• emetin
• beyond
• fight sb / sth ↔ off
• beckon for
• etherizing
• thrust horsepower
• ephebe
• septennates
• ambushment
• anociation
• recurvature
• dinothere
• sheikdom
• dust-cloud theory
• superseded
• chalcogenide
• Kahler's disease
• have one's eye on the ball
• autoloaders
• power cut
• glyphic
• （as） bald as a coot
• Cassiopeian
• single-knit fabric
• tingling
• khets
• guaranties
• target
• traditional liberal
• spermatid
• Goidelic
• take one's place
• energy technique economy
• idiomatic expression / phrase
• Dulong and Petit's law
• happed
• screen pass
• rubythroat
• pearl bluish
• no small -
• condemnation
• associatest
• firemaster
• when the balloon goes up
• yellow journalisms
• section view
• Chlorangiaceae
• broncho
• Ainos
• piss-heads
• paddlewheeler
• order bill of lading
• all ups
• crownest
• metallo-
• singsong
• lightwoods
• locutorship
• woo
• self-concentrated
• keep open door
• corrigendas
• be unable to see the forest for the trees