third-rate
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third-rate
adjective third rate
- 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.
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Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.
He was smoking a cherry-wood pipe, and looked on the whole as if he had borrowed his outfit from the wardrobe of a third-rate dramatic company.
Similar: bad, lousy, third-class, ass, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit
noun third-rates · third rate
- A third-rate ship of the line.
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