bench warmer
An athlete who does not get much playing time (usually because they are not very good or skilled). I'm just a bench warmer, so you won't see me out on the court much. Yeah, I don't think he's a bench warmer. Look at all these awards he's won for the school! He's not very coordinated. To be honest, I don't know that I would even keep him as a bench warmer.
nose-burner
1. slang A very short pipe used for smoking tobacco or marijuana. I have a little nose-burner that I keep in my back pack so I can toke up throughout the day. My grandfather used to smoke this pungent tobacco out of a small nose-burner after every meal—even breakfast!
2. slang The remains of the unburned end (the butt) of a marijuana cigarette. He kept trying to light the nose-burner in his fingertips and nearly set his moustache on fire! We collected all the nose-burners in the ash tray and filled a bowl with what we managed to scrape out of them.
nose-warmer
1. slang A very short pipe used for smoking tobacco or marijuana. I have a little nose-warmer that I keep in my back pack so I can toke up throughout the day. My grandfather used to smoke this pungent tobacco out of a small nose-warmer after every meal—even breakfast!
2. slang The remains of the unburned end (the butt) of a marijuana cigarette. He kept trying to light the nose-warmer in his fingertips and nearly set his moustache on fire! We collected all the nose-warmers in the ash tray and filled a bowl with what we managed to scrape out of them.
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bench warmer
n. a ballplayer who spends most of the game on the bench waiting to play; a second-rate player. You’ll never be anything but a bench warmer.
nose-burner
and nose-warmer n. a marijuana cigarette stub; a roach. (Drugs.) Hey, man! Can I have a hit of that little nose-burner? He quickly stubbed out a little nose-burner when he heard the garage door open.
nose-warmer
verbnose-warmer
1. n. a short tobacco pipe. Fred smokes a nose-warmer, especially in the winter.
2. Go to nose-burner.
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