sloppy secondsn.
/ˌslɒpɪ ˈsɛk(ə)ndz/, U.S. /ˌslɑpi ˈsɛkəndz/ colloquial and depreciative. In sense 2, potentially offensive.
1. Something regarded as inferior to something else; second choice or position. In later use usually: something which has been previously used or rejected by another person; a cast-off.Apparently used variously with allusion to either second n.2 5 or second n.2 8.
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1953 Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 21 July 4/2 Most of the filmed half-hour shows are poor beyond reproach and it is hard enough to see them the first time without having them pop up for seconds. It is sloppy seconds at best.
1969 Columbia (N.Y.) Daily Spectator 17 Oct. 7/1 All four now hold first place with 17-3 records, while Mark..is taking sloppy seconds with his 15-5 record.
1974 Women Sports June 79/2 A plan to give women their own professional contest and organization to make sure that women never have to accept sloppy seconds again.
1997 A. Beattie My Life, starring Dara Falcon 223 I asked her not to tell you she'd ever been asked to type the stupid manuscript because I didn't want you to think you were getting sloppy seconds.
2013 Variety 21 May 34/1 Cable is doing well enough to crank out originals, which will do more to distinguish those brands than taking another network's sloppy seconds.
2.
a. The action or fact of being the second man in a sequence of two (or more) men to have sexual intercourse with the same partner; an act of sexual intercourse of this type, viewed as having less status or appeal than the first act; (also) either of the people involved in such an act of intercourse. Potentially offensive.With reference to the notion of the first man's semen being present in the passive partner.Often in the context of sequential sex acts involving coercion or force, such as gang rape.
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1965 S. Linakis In Spring War Ended xi. 104 The following afternoon I had her in back of a knoll... ‘Tomorrow we come? You bring ami, Bill, aussi?’ ‘Why not? Two can fill a hole better than one.’ The following day, Bill got sloppy seconds.
1969 C. Farmer Soul on Fire vii. 121 ‘Fuck this, Red,’ the spic bitched. ‘Last time you promise next time I get some cherry. All you guys get rosebud ass and I get sloppy seconds.’
1981 I. Horovitz Widow's Blind Date ii. 86 I led off, Archie was sloppy seconds, Swede was numero trez, and Spike the Loon was the definite clean-up.
1997 H. Holton Violent Crimes xxxi. 110 Then he was off the unconscious woman and yanking up his pants. ‘Okay, boy... It's your turn. Slopply seconds is better than nothing.’
2008 A. Lister Swingers: Female Confidential 126 While it felt good to have him pump his load inside me, it didn't properly get me off. So I said, the first guy to slap a condom on his cock could get sloppy seconds.
b. Involvement in a sexual or romantic relationship with a person who is regarded as another's cast-off; (also) someone else's former sexual or romantic partner, viewed as discarded or unwanted.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun] > one who or that which is
waif1624
discard1719
discarding1731
cast-off1740
cast-by1818
left-off1865
sloppy seconds1973
1973 F. Deford Cut 'n' Run iv. 36 ‘Don't give me any of that jazz,’ Jerry said. ‘You'd like to be in her pants too, Reds.’.. ‘After Tobe dipped his wick in, I wouldn't want any sloppy seconds.’
1988 P. Beck & P. Massman Rich Men, Single Women xxv. 301 She knew she should push her way around him and out of the booth... That she should not be accepting Paige's sloppy seconds so easily.
2002 R. Gervais & S. Merchant Office: Scripts 1st Ser. Episode 6. 257 I'd have done her but that would be shitting on your own doorstep. And anyway I don't do sloppy seconds.
2012 J. Hamrick Death makes Cut i. 17 I don't need your sloppy seconds, thanks very much. Especially not some cheap bastard.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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