0 someone who is not expected to win a race or competition:
Hemming was a rank outsider in the contest (some betting odds were in excess of 4001).
If it is a rank outsider that comes in, fabulous sums may be obtained from the totalisator.
I was, he recalls, a rank outsider.
Beginning the season as rank outsiders, having never played together before, the boys outperformed all expectations, making the semi-finals.