reliever
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reliever (plural relievers)
- (chiefly medicine) Something which relieves (pain, etc.).
- Pepto-Bismol is an upset-stomach reliever.
- (baseball) A relief pitcher.
- The first reliever got the last two outs of the sixth.
- Someone who fills in for another.
- I'll be the reliever today so that you can each take a break.
- (slang, dated) A garment kept for being lent out.
- 1929, Maine. Legislature, Legislative Record, page 1033:
- Now that fellow wants five or ten dollars on his suit. He goes to this pawn shop and asks for a reliever. That is a second-hand suit, pretty well used up.