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Backup dancer

Backup dancer came up about 2014 when I kept having friends bring these randoms out them. These people tend to not know they are backup dancers. They generally bring nothing to the table, occasionally they have money but 9 times they are just here to make you look good. They are sometimes mistaken for acquaintances but normally you don't know much about they. After a while they graduate from backup dancing to actually friends.
Who'd you come out with ? Some backup dancers!

Those backup dancers over there are throwing shade.
Backup dancer by Bizall June 6, 2017

backup dancer

Someone who wants to be something or in the spotlight at all times.
Kylie Jenner u backup dancer (cos she's not a kardashian)
backup dancer by TRUSSSMEDADDI July 27, 2016

BACKUP DANCER

Backup dancer is a gritty localized term used by the inhabitants of England describing a person who lingers in the back of every circumstance without a purpose and is classified as irrelevant to the human society.
This term emerged from a rapper named Stormzy who performed a free style at a South London Park
"Rahh that wasteman is a backup dancer"
"Get off his woodina you backup dancer"
BACKUP DANCER by Zootnation July 28, 2023

backup dancer

Someone who's just a complete twat, so annoying, attention-seeking, wants to be in the centre of everything but they can't really succeed in doing this. Originated from the song 'shutup by stormzy'
Oi Lydia, stop being such a backup dancer.
backup dancer by TRUSSSMEDADDI September 19, 2016

Backup Dancer

A person who isn't important.

A person who hides in the shadow of someone else.

A copycat.
Yo you heard about Tom

Na he's a Backup Dancer.
Backup Dancer by Jumpman44 September 5, 2016
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Respectfully by john quan the first December 20, 2020
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