FIRST STRING meaning: Primary team members in sports

We found 19 dictionaries that define the word first string:

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first-string: Merriam-Webster
first string: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
first-string, first string: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
first-string, first-string, first string: Collins English Dictionary
first-string: Vocabulary.com
first-string: Wordnik
first-string, first string: Wiktionary
first-string: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
first-string: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
first-string: Infoplease Dictionary
first-string, first string: Dictionary.com
first-string: Rhymezone
first-string: FreeDictionary.org
first-string: Mnemonic Dictionary
first-string, first string: TheFreeDictionary.com
first string: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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the first string: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (first string)

▸ noun: the members of a sports team who play regularly at the start of a match (rather than being substituted on)
▸ noun: the first violinist in an orchestra.

Opposite:

second string, bench players, reserves

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