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someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
we need extra employees for summer fill-ins
the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes
How To Use stand-in In A Sentence
- A stand-in drummer bashes on a single snare and a pair of cymbals.
- I thought he was saying that the thing we call a spoon is a prop or stand-in for a specific bunch of communicative understandings. The Forest for the Spoons
- Den wii came outside in our beeg citee, and stand-in onna kornur, dis mans popped out of restaurant and sez, Ladeez! Pwning ur elders - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- For instance, Mike Totten, speaking at the 2008 Winter Soldier hearings in Washington, D.C., discussed how the Army twisted the word "hadji," which means an Islamic religious pilgrim, into the "gook" stand-in of the Iraq war. Robert Koehler: Holy War
- The rocket ship is made in three main sections. This is the top section, where the pilot will sit. Inside is a stand-in for the pilot's chair.
- Norton is covering for Chris Evans on his Breakfast Show for two weeks and has been blessed with something most stand-ins can only dream of: his own jingle, full of pizzazz and, crucially, his name boldly proclaimed. Breakfast Show
- Big dicks can always shrivel into nubbins of insignificance, and as such they are obvious stand-up stand-ins for phallocentric patriarchy. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
- She had been a bit-part player in Rice Court's drama- a stand-in. SPLITTING
- Not all figuration is metaphoric though; in metonymy, the process of interpretation is not based on resemblances but on other forms of association -- the association of a crown with a king, for example, such that we use the artefact as a metonymic stand-in for the person. Archive 2008-08-01
- Edward CastronovaI thought he was saying that the thing we call a spoon is a prop or stand-in for a specific bunch of communicative understandings. The Forest for the Spoons