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second bananas

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plural of second banana

as in top bananas

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That’s a lot of inexperience for a staff trying to match wits with Mike Vrabel and one of the NFL’s deepest coaching rosters, even if Josh Allen remains the best player in the league.

— Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
Simmons will get a chance to match offensive wits with the QB that took over his role.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of wits

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Over the past few years, Gillis has become one of the biggest comedians in the world.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026
Though even that sentiment feels about five years out of date — a single un-PC joke doesn’t exactly end careers anymore, as several edge-lord comedians like Dave Chappelle can attest.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of comedians

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Moreover, if Griffin stepped into public life now, the cynical wags in finance would declare the reason obvious—his hedge fund’s returns have been sagging.

— Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Many critics, political pundits, and wags asked, somewhat rhetorically, whether anyone in the administration recalls how handing the responsibility of nuclear weaponry over to machines turned out in the Terminator movies.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026

Definition of wags

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An isolated patient can find medical influencers, therapist creators, or medical humorists who translate the opaque language of healthcare into something human, tailored, and easier to understand.

— Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
By 1980, most newspapers had humorists as well as analysts on their editorial or op-ed pages, and some, especially smaller ones that did not have separate business or lifestyle sections, ran advice columns on business and other topics there.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026

Definition of humorists

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Fellow Hollywood Bowl funnymen will include Shane Gillis, John Mulaney and Marcello Hernández.

— Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
Lord and Miller are boisterous funnymen, with a flair for the exaggerated and the outlandish that feels born of their frequent work in animation.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of funnymen

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There are Jewish jokes and Jewish jokesters and Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters.

— Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
The Harvard jokesters’ ad noted that a $10 million reward is being offered for the return of the 13 missing masterpieces that were taken from the Boston museum 35 years ago.

— Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025

Definition of jokesters

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