the hollywood starlet had been attracted to champions and to down-and-outlaws, but the milquetoast also-ran in his ford pinto didn't even register beyond her retina
neither a loser nor a winner, inescapably more pathetic, less evocative of empathy, less romantic than winner or [loser]
"the hollywood starlet had been attracted to champions and to down-and-outlaws, but the milquetoast also-ran in his ford pinto didn't even register beyond her retina" What is the definition of "also-ran"?