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ˈend-man
Also end man.
[f. end n. + man n.1]
A man at an end of a line or row; U.S. the man at either extremity of the semi-circle of performers in a nigger-minstrel entertainment, a corner-man.
1865Sala Diary II. 395 He propounded conundrums to his brother ‘end man’ who played the banjo. 1884Sat. Rev. 7 June 740/1 At the ends are Bones and Tambo, the ‘end-men’. 1886Harper's Mag. Nov. 837/1 Binns..sang..appearing to Roxy as he sang as delightful a personage as an end man. 1889Cent. Dict. s.v., In the early days of negro minstrelsy each troupe had two end-men... The larger troupes have since had two, and sometimes four, of each class of end-men. 1909T. C. de Leon Beaux, Belles & Brains of 60's xxxi. 356 Emmett was the star of Birch and Backus, as endman. 1956M. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xi. 116 The usual half circle of players with the end-men and interlocutor cracking jokes and doing their various specialties. |