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The terms "reacher" and "settler" come from an episoe of the US sitcom "How I Met Your Mother".

In a relationship, the reacher is the one who has gotten a partner out of their league. They have reached for and gotten something (almost) out of their reach.

The settler is the person who settles for someone who is not as good as they could get.

I wonder how they actually translated this into German (I assume this sitcom is on German TV). I also wonder is there is any literal way to express this in German as well as in English.

Nothing I can think of even remotely works. "Streber" is the best I can think of for the reacher, but that doesn't work, I think, because a Streber is a nerd in school.

To settle is literally "sich mit etwas zufrieden geben" but I have no idea whether this could be made into a noun.