Usually means: Inferior quality, below average standard.
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  1. third rate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. third-rate: Merriam-Webster
  3. third-rate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. third-rate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. third-rate, third-rate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. third-rate: Vocabulary.com
  7. third-rate: Wordnik
  8. third-rate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. third-rate, third rate: Wiktionary
  10. third-rate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. third-rate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. third-rate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. third-rate, third rate: Dictionary.com
  14. Third-rate, Third rate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. third-rate: Rhymezone
  16. third-rate: FreeDictionary.org
  17. third-rate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. third-rate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (Third rate)

adjective:  Alternative spelling of third-rate [(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 64–80 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 500–650, and weighing approximately 1,750 tons burthen.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of third-rate [(UK, military, nautical, historical) A third-rate ship of the line.]

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