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second banana definition

☆ second banana

  1. a performer in show business, esp. burlesque, who plays a subordinate role, as straight man, to the top banana, or star comedian
  2. any person in a subordinate, often servile, position

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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