back-markern.
One who starts from ‘scratch’ or has the least favourable handicap in a game, match, or race.
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society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > champion or expert
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1895 Daily News 5 Sept. 7/3 The back-markers were well up in the last lap.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 10/1 One day there was an exhibition game of billiards... Captain Johnson took 150 in 300 from Cook, and had been passed by the ‘back-marker’.
1903 Daily Chron. 26 Dec. 5/3 The crowd favoured the back-markers.
1957 S. Moss In Track of Speed i. 13 I felt it quite an honour to be the backmarker, running into third place after a lap.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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