runner-up

[runner-up] {n.}

The person who finishes second in a race or contest; the one next after the winner.

* /Tom won the race and Jack was runner-up./

* /Joan was runner-up in the contest for class secretary./

Compare: SECOND-BEST.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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