end man

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscorner man

   Broaderminstrel

   Part ofminstrel show
2. 2.

   a man at one end of a row of people

   Broaderacquaintance

   Part ofrank

Questions about end man

What does end man mean?

end man means "a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show; carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for end man?

Close synonyms include corner 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 end man a common word?

end man is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.