Usually means: Extra player supporting team's efforts.
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  1. twelfth man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. twelfth man: Collins English Dictionary
  3. twelfth man: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. twelfth man: Wiktionary
  5. The Twelfth Man, Twelfth Man (film), Twelfth man (cricket): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. twelfth man: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. twelfth man: Encyclopedia

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  1. Twelfth man: Sports Definitions

Definitions from Wiktionary (twelfth man)

noun:  (cricket, rare in the plural) A designated substitute player who may field but not bat or bowl.
noun:  (sports) Collectively, the fans of a team in many eleven-a-side sports, seen as helping the team to succeed.

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