bridesmaid

noun

1. A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.

   “I'd love to be your bridesmaid at the wedding.”

   “I was promised sex. Everybody said it. You'll be a bridesmaid, you'll get sex, you'll be fighting 'em off. But not so much as a tongue in sight.”

2. A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first.

   “He had taken her for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along; he had looked right past her, as likely many people did.”

verb

1. To act as a bridesmaid for; to attend a bride during her wedding ceremony.

   “"No, Trichy; I won't be Augusta's bridesmaid; I'll bide my time for bridesmaiding."”

   “And what's this? that isn't Herbie Frost with you in the canoe ; why he was best man when I bridesmaided Corinne.”

   “"It's in my Data-fax, right here! December Bride: and I'm supposed to bridesmaid!"”

   “After ten years of friendship and just six months of lackluster bridesmaiding, the women did not even get an invitation to the wedding.”

   “Still they bridesmaided for her.”