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Noun
en-noun|sg=second banana

1. context|idiom A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.

#: He grew disenchanted with playing second banana and never getting credit for the laughter.

1. idiom A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.

#: The plumber left his second banana behind, to finish installing my new sink.

Related terms
top banana

• 2007-05-15 15:03 - WikiPedant - complete rewrite, with examples

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