straight man

1. 1.

   a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian

   Synonymssecond banana

   Broaderperformer

Questions about straight man

What does straight man mean?

straight man means "a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian".

What is another word for straight man?

Close synonyms include second banana. 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 straight man a common word?

straight 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.