NOUN
- a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian
- someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role
How To Use second banana In A Sentence
- We had twins, so I didn't become second banana, I was third banana, " says Michael Schaus of Greenwich, Connecticut, father of Caroline and Virginia, now 4. "That was to be expected.
- The pundit class waxes historical in the excitement of the moment but usually the vice-presidential choices go back to playing second banana. Times, Sunday Times
- He always plays second banana in the basketball matches.
- He just is a second banana in that burlesque.
- What makes the situation so galling is that we, now playing second banana, are in no way a threat to them. Matthew Yglesias » Staggeringly Off-the-Mark Forecasts of European Economic Preeminence
- He always plays second banana in the basketball matches.
- And this malevolent second banana knows how to do this because...
- McMahon, best known as the avuncular second banana to Johnny Carson on the "Tonight Show," died at age 86, also in dire financial straits after profligate spending. Undefined
- He always plays second banana in the basketball matches.
- In the world of venture capital, tech is the movie star and life sciences the second banana.