corner man

1. 1.

   a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show; carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor

   Synonymsend man

   Broaderminstrel

   Part ofminstrel show

Questions about corner man

What does corner man mean?

corner man means "a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show; carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor".

What is another word for corner man?

Close synonyms include end man. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corner man a common word?

corner man is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.