| 单词 | cellar-dweller |
| 释义 | > as lemmascellar-dweller cellar-dweller n. (a) a person who lives in a cellar (now rare); (b) Sport (originally Baseball) a team having the lowest ranking (or among the lowest rankings) in a league or other grouping (cf. sense 2c); frequently in plural; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1844 Westm. Rev. 41 368 There are the museum and the library,..to which garreteer or cellar-dweller may alike obtain access. 1906 Edinb. Med. Jrnl. 20 546 There was sometimes a back cellar used as a sleeping apartment... The cellar-dwellers were absolutely without out-offices. 1927 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 4 May 11/3 Uncle Robbie's erstwhile cellar dwellers overcame a five-run lead and won 7 to 6. 1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Aug. 35/3 Canadian Football League's cellar-dwellers—Calgary Stampeders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. 1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 24 Oct. c11/3 The former NBC programming whiz..turned a cellar-dweller into a ratings champ. 2007 People (Nexis) 12 Aug. (Sport section) 2 [He] scored 18 goals for Serie A cellar-dwellers Regina last season. < as lemmas |
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