first string
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1. first string - Noun
2. first string - Adjective
3. first string - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
being a regular member of a team
of members of a team; not substitutes
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first-string players
After three years of development, Augustine demonstrated a nylon first string whose quality impressed guitarists, including Segovia, in addition to DuPont.
It’s safe to say that either Brown, a 2009 Wichita East High School and sophomore transfer from the University of Tennessee, or sophomore John Hubert will win the first-string running back position.
Shaw, facing OV’s first-string defense, went one-for-six for six yards and an interception.
In 1756, Baron Carl Josef Fürnberg employed Haydn at his country estate, Weinzierl, where the composer wrote his first string quartets.