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back-marker
[f. back mark (back a. 1, mark n.1) + -er1.]
One who starts from ‘scratch’ or has the least favourable handicap in a game, match, or race.
1895Daily News 5 Sept. 7/3 The back-markers were well up in the last lap. 1899Westm. 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’. 1957S. Moss In Track of Speed i. 13, I felt it quite an honour to be the backmarker, running into third place after a lap. |