Related Clues:
- Runner-up, essentially
- Locker room sulker
- Successful dieter
- Concession speech giver
- Dewey, to Truman
- Ineffectual competitor
- #3 or #4, say
- Terse putdown
- Perennial last-place finisher
- Short straw drawer, e.g.
- The one with 0 in 7-0
- Last-place finisher
- Runner-up
- Luckless fellow
- Out-of-the-money finisher