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Fill-in   /fɪl-ɪn/   Listen
Fill-in

noun
1.
Someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult).  Synonyms: backup, backup man, relief, reliever, stand-in, substitute.  "We need extra employees for summer fill-ins"






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"Fill-in" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the aid of a light northerly wind. They passed on the 9th a huge bergstrom, with a drop of about 70 feet from the flat surface of the Barrier. Joyce thought that a big crevasse had caved in. "We took some photographs," wrote Joyce. "It is a really extraordinary fill-in of ice, with cliffs of blue ice about 70 feet high, and heavily crevassed, with overhanging snow-curtains. One could easily walk over the edge coming from the north in thick weather." Another bergstrom, with crevassed ice around it, was encountered on the ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton



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