runner-upn.

Brit.

/ˌrʌnərˈʌp/, U.S.

/ˌrənərˈəp/

Inflections: Plural runners-up, runner-ups.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: runner n.¹, up adv.¹

Etymology: < runner n.¹ + up adv.¹, after to run up at run v. Phrasal verbs 1.

1. With of.

a. A person who constructs or erects something rapidly or hurriedly. Cf. to run up 7a at run v. Phrasal verbs 1. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1839 London & Westm. Rev. Oct. 75/2 Instruction..was to become a continual anticipation of experience, a runner up of specimen edifices, a prompter and guide of delighting curiosity.

1841 M. F. Tupper Author's Mind 29 Your modern wholesale runner-up of lath and plaister tenements.

1864 Leisure Hour 13 Feb. 110/1 No runner-up of houses ever thinks it worth his while to protect the water-pipes from frost, or to shield the cistern containing the supply from its effects.

1981 AA Files 1 123/1 Even in this relatively early work he reveals himself to be no mere runner-up of endlessly repetitious facades.

b. A person who accumulates an amount, a debt, a score, etc. Cf. to run up 2 at run v. Phrasal verbs 1.

ΚΠ

1892 Punch 1 Oct. 145/1 O H. S. Ranjit.., Wielder of willow, runner-up of ‘centuries’!

1969 L. G. Pine Story of Titles iii. 26 Caesar died at the age of fifty-seven but until he was over forty, he was known simply as a Roman politician, little better than others of that ilk, a man of fashion and a runner-up of colossal debts.

2004 R. Hoggart Mass Media in Mass Society (2005) iii. 71 It took only a few days for more critical pieces—lap of luxury..snob..runner up of huge overdrafts..opinionated right-winger—to appear.

a. In coursing: a dog which keeps pace with the other dogs in a race until the final course, and which upon then losing to the winner takes second place. Now rare (in later use generally regarded as a contextual use of sense 2b).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > greyhound racing > [noun] > greyhound by performance

runner-up1842

roughie1908

nap1926

1842 T. Thacker Courser's Ann. 210 Dividers or runners up for stakes of only four dogs.

1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports ii. iii. viii. 207/1 The dog beaten by the runner-up in the last tie but one.

1902 Outing Sept. 730/1 The dog which ran with him in the final heat was called the runner-up, and was considered the next best performer to the winner.

1958 Times 14 Feb. 12/1 Caer Pilot, runner-up in the Barbican Cup last year, showed fine speed to lead and beat the puppy Gareth.

b. gen. A competitor or competing team that comes in second or takes the second place. Later also more generally: a person who or thing which just fails to win a prize, award, etc. Cf. to run up 14 at run v. Phrasal verbs 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > runner-up, etc.

runner-up1859

silver medallist1910

placer1942

vice-champion1981

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > one who > one who wins > one who comes next to winner

proxime accessit1852

runner-up1859

proxime1889

second1892

1859 Era 10 July 3/3 The Molyneux Plate, one mile, should be carried off by one of the runners up in the other handicaps.

1862 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 126/1 The cow class was the great one,..and even that travelled beauty Piccolomini, might be satisfied to be again second. Another runner-up was Mr. Merson.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Aug. 3/2 Now Bird is nowhere, while Brown is the runner-up for the first place.

1949 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 11 June 38/2 It was a ‘runner-up’ for the Herald Tribune award.

1962 Billboard Music Week 31 Mar. 9 (advt.) First prize—$500... Fourth prize—$150. The ten runners-up will receive $100 each in Connie Francis albums.

1976 Burnham-on-Sea Gaz. 20 Apr. Highbridge soccer team Bristol Bridge look like losing their chance of finishing runners-up in the second division of the Bridgwater and District Sunday Football League.

2005 Women & Golf Jan.–Feb. 66/4 She..was a member of the Irish girls' team that finished runner-up to England in the Home Internationals.

c. figurative. A person or thing which almost matches another in respect of a particular quality or attribute.

ΚΠ

1914 Munsey's Mag. Sept. 775 A sort of runner-up to ‘La Cellule Blanche’, and a miniature tragedy quite likely to find its way to America, is ‘Le Thanatographe’.

1932 New Yorker 11 June 24/3 Blyth Daly is the horsy young lady who serves as runner-up to the Brat in offensiveness.

1958 Times 18 Sept. 13/3 Her favourites are not only Arabs, but, also, Thoroughbreds, Percherons..with, as runners-up, Hackneys, Hunters, Palominos.

2006 Metro (Toronto) 17 Aug. 40/3 The key silhouette this season is the skinny cigarette leg..but a close runner-up is the trouser jean.

3. A person who seeks to raise the purchase price of something offered at auction. Cf. to run up 9c at run v. Phrasal verbs 1. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > bidder > one who runs up bidding

goad1608

setter1699

white bonnet1760

puffer1765

sweetener1823

jolly1856

runner-up1860

floor man1928

1860 R. S. Surtees Plain or Ringlets? xlvii. 169 The hammer having fallen, then comes the real..sale; the late runners down now become the runners up.

1905 Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 6/4 Some of the functions of a professional ‘runner up’ of bids.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 2b), as runner-up prize, etc.

ΚΠ

1891 Belfast News-let. 15 Dec. 3/4 The other [competition will be] for a handsome gold cross..and a runner-up prize.

1925 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 384/1 At the tournament dance..he was called out for the runner-up prize in the fourth division.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 18 Dec. 6/4 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip made the runner-up list, as did Alistair Cooke, Shirley MacLaine, [etc.].

1992 M. Medved Hollywood vs. Amer. i. ii. 25 Named as runner-up film in three categories..was My Own Private Idaho.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	runner-up
释义	runner-upn. Brit. /ˌrʌnərˈʌp/, U.S. /ˌrənərˈəp/ Inflections: Plural runners-up, runner-ups. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: runner n.¹, up adv.¹ Etymology: < runner n.¹ + up adv.¹, after to run up at run v. Phrasal verbs 1. 1. With of. a. A person who constructs or erects something rapidly or hurriedly. Cf. to run up 7a at run v. Phrasal verbs 1. Now rare. ΚΠ 1839 London & Westm. Rev. Oct. 75/2 Instruction..was to become a continual anticipation of experience, a runner up of specimen edifices, a prompter and guide of delighting curiosity. 1841 M. F. Tupper Author's Mind 29 Your modern wholesale runner-up of lath and plaister tenements. 1864 Leisure Hour 13 Feb. 110/1 No runner-up of houses ever thinks it worth his while to protect the water-pipes from frost, or to shield the cistern containing the supply from its effects. 1981 AA Files 1 123/1 Even in this relatively early work he reveals himself to be no mere runner-up of endlessly repetitious facades. b. A person who accumulates an amount, a debt, a score, etc. Cf. to run up 2 at run v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1892 Punch 1 Oct. 145/1 O H. S. Ranjit.., Wielder of willow, runner-up of ‘centuries’! 1969 L. G. Pine Story of Titles iii. 26 Caesar died at the age of fifty-seven but until he was over forty, he was known simply as a Roman politician, little better than others of that ilk, a man of fashion and a runner-up of colossal debts. 2004 R. Hoggart Mass Media in Mass Society (2005) iii. 71 It took only a few days for more critical pieces—lap of luxury..snob..runner up of huge overdrafts..opinionated right-winger—to appear. 2. a. In coursing: a dog which keeps pace with the other dogs in a race until the final course, and which upon then losing to the winner takes second place. Now rare (in later use generally regarded as a contextual use of sense 2b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > greyhound racing > [noun] > greyhound by performance runner-up1842 roughie1908 nap1926 1842 T. Thacker Courser's Ann. 210 Dividers or runners up for stakes of only four dogs. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports ii. iii. viii. 207/1 The dog beaten by the runner-up in the last tie but one. 1902 Outing Sept. 730/1 The dog which ran with him in the final heat was called the runner-up, and was considered the next best performer to the winner. 1958 Times 14 Feb. 12/1 Caer Pilot, runner-up in the Barbican Cup last year, showed fine speed to lead and beat the puppy Gareth. b. gen. A competitor or competing team that comes in second or takes the second place. Later also more generally: a person who or thing which just fails to win a prize, award, etc. Cf. to run up 14 at run v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > runner-up, etc. runner-up1859 silver medallist1910 placer1942 vice-champion1981 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > one who > one who wins > one who comes next to winner proxime accessit1852 runner-up1859 proxime1889 second1892 1859 Era 10 July 3/3 The Molyneux Plate, one mile, should be carried off by one of the runners up in the other handicaps. 1862 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 126/1 The cow class was the great one,..and even that travelled beauty Piccolomini, might be satisfied to be again second. Another runner-up was Mr. Merson. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Aug. 3/2 Now Bird is nowhere, while Brown is the runner-up for the first place. 1949 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 11 June 38/2 It was a ‘runner-up’ for the Herald Tribune award. 1962 Billboard Music Week 31 Mar. 9 (advt.) First prize—$500... Fourth prize—$150. The ten runners-up will receive $100 each in Connie Francis albums. 1976 Burnham-on-Sea Gaz. 20 Apr. Highbridge soccer team Bristol Bridge look like losing their chance of finishing runners-up in the second division of the Bridgwater and District Sunday Football League. 2005 Women & Golf Jan.–Feb. 66/4 She..was a member of the Irish girls' team that finished runner-up to England in the Home Internationals. c. figurative. A person or thing which almost matches another in respect of a particular quality or attribute. ΚΠ 1914 Munsey's Mag. Sept. 775 A sort of runner-up to ‘La Cellule Blanche’, and a miniature tragedy quite likely to find its way to America, is ‘Le Thanatographe’. 1932 New Yorker 11 June 24/3 Blyth Daly is the horsy young lady who serves as runner-up to the Brat in offensiveness. 1958 Times 18 Sept. 13/3 Her favourites are not only Arabs, but, also, Thoroughbreds, Percherons..with, as runners-up, Hackneys, Hunters, Palominos. 2006 Metro (Toronto) 17 Aug. 40/3 The key silhouette this season is the skinny cigarette leg..but a close runner-up is the trouser jean. 3. A person who seeks to raise the purchase price of something offered at auction. Cf. to run up 9c at run v. Phrasal verbs 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > bidder > one who runs up bidding goad1608 setter1699 white bonnet1760 puffer1765 sweetener1823 jolly1856 runner-up1860 floor man1928 1860 R. S. Surtees Plain or Ringlets? xlvii. 169 The hammer having fallen, then comes the real..sale; the late runners down now become the runners up. 1905 Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 6/4 Some of the functions of a professional ‘runner up’ of bids. Compounds General attributive (in sense 2b), as runner-up prize, etc. ΚΠ 1891 Belfast News-let. 15 Dec. 3/4 The other [competition will be] for a handsome gold cross..and a runner-up prize. 1925 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 384/1 At the tournament dance..he was called out for the runner-up prize in the fourth division. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 18 Dec. 6/4 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip made the runner-up list, as did Alistair Cooke, Shirley MacLaine, [etc.]. 1992 M. Medved Hollywood vs. Amer. i. ii. 25 Named as runner-up film in three categories..was My Own Private Idaho. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1839
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