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Synonyms:
- flip-flop, mouthpiece, assistant, helpmate, alternative, ham, portray, agent, standby, jump, enact, emissary, nominee, helper, switch, figurehead, fill-in, auxiliary, alternate, ghost, token, character actor, lead, actress, flip, surrogate, double for, servant, backup, assignee, overact, representative, spokeswoman, stand-in, body double, aide, envoy, star, imitation, substitute, interchange, delegate, attorney, actor, ad-lib, dummy, play, leading lady, tack, acolyte, second, costar, take turns, arm, act, attendant, lieutenant, heart-throb, counterfeit, appointee, replacement, deputy, double, spokesman, proxy
Examples:
- - But I haven't an understudy.... - "Anthony Lyveden", Dornford Yates
- - I mean that the artist may be his own understudy in the shape of a satirist, or even a playwright, and that then we laugh far less at the drawings themselves than at the satire or comic incident they represent. - "Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic", Henri Bergson
- - If Gwen's understudy had been called on, there would have been- to borrow a favourite expression of Uncle Mo's- a pretty how- do- you- do, on the part of Predestination. - "When Ghost Meets Ghost", William Frend De Morgan
