bouche-trou

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /buʃ.tʁu/
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Noun

bouche-trou m (plural bouche-trous)

(informal, offensive) a second fiddle, a stopgap, a stand-in, a fill-in, a makeweight; a rebound (a person whose sole purpose is to fill a void left by another person)

See also

plan de secours

Further reading

“bouche-trou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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