hud, welcome! and thank you for that word

It gets 8 hits in OneLook, indicating that it's somewhat, if not very, obscure. It is unquestionably of Type 3

http://wordsmith.org/board/ubbthreads.ph...true#Post165723

I can't think of a suitable Type-2 unless it's co-star. Remarkably, this term isn't found in thesaurus.com, which I have found lacking in many other respects. For what it's worth, however,

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/second%20banana

Last edited by dalehileman; 07/03/2007 6:23 PM.
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