Usually means: Subordinate role to another person.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word second fiddle:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. second fiddle: Merriam-Webster
  2. second fiddle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. second fiddle: Collins English Dictionary
  4. second fiddle: Vocabulary.com
  5. second-fiddle: Wordnik
  6. second fiddle: Wiktionary
  7. second fiddle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. second fiddle: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. second fiddle: Dictionary.com
  10. second fiddle: Rhymezone
  11. second fiddle: FreeDictionary.org
  12. second fiddle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. second fiddle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. second fiddle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. second fiddle: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. second fiddle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (second fiddle)

▸ noun:  (music) A fiddle part in harmony to the first fiddle.
▸ noun:  (music) The person playing second fiddle.
▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A sidekick or subordinate, or the role of such a person.

Similar:
first fiddle, lead fiddle, fiddlestring, bass fiddle, guitar fiddle, fiddle, fondamento, feddle, bull fiddle, fugue, more...

Opposite:
prima donna, star, leading man, leading lady, starlet, leading role

Phrases:
play second fiddle, played second fiddle, playing second fiddle, plays second fiddle, more...

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Similar:
first fiddle, lead fiddle, fiddlestring, bass fiddle, guitar fiddle, fiddle, fondamento, feddle, bull fiddle, fugue, more...

Opposite:
prima donna, star, leading man, leading lady, starlet, leading role

Phrases:
play second fiddle, played second fiddle, playing second fiddle, plays second fiddle, more...



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