cornerman

American  

[kawr-ner-man, -muhn] / ˈkɔr nərˌmæn, -mən /

noun

cornermen plural

1. Basketball. a forward.

2. Ice Hockey. a player who is adept at gaining control of the puck in the corner areas of the rink.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cornermen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cornerman

corner + man

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cornerman cornermen

Creamer also doubled as a boxing coach and cornerman, and he put his football players through boxing training on Fridays for extra conditioning.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

Mayweather could have volunteered to be the cornerman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2019

I could hear Ali’s cornerman Bundini Brown say.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2016

In 1963, he was knocked down by Henry Cooper at Wembley and legend has it that Ali’s cornerman, Angelo Dundee, deliberately split the young fighter’s glove to give him more time to recover between rounds.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2016

Even the bones and cornerman at the Livermore christies.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Mics were also embedded in posts to catch cornermen chatter and layered under mats for more realistically thunderous takedowns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

Once the fight was over, her cornermen were called upon to hold her up.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2022

During the minute-long rest period, Davis’s cornermen assured him he could win the final round by carefully placing his left hand to Cruz’s body and depending heavily on his right.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

But just a day before the event, one of its fighters had to pull out after he and two of his cornermen tested positive.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2020

In this work I could not give much help, for this notching and fitting together was done by experienced ones, called the axe, or cornermen.

From A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico by Jabez, Brother