cornerman
Americannoun
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cornermen
plural
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Basketball. a forward.
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Ice Hockey. a player who is adept at gaining control of the puck in the corner areas of the rink.
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Origin of cornerman
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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
I could hear Ali’s cornerman Bundini Brown say.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2016
But he was still groggy as Angelo Dundee, his trainer, alerted the referee to a tear in his glove and a cornerman poured ice over Clay’s lower extremities.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2016
Think Justin Turner, the clementine cornerman, the tangerine titan, the dude whose flowing red hair and beard defied all synonyms in October when he hit .526 in the playoffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2016
An' he comes back, after lookin' at it, as cheerful as the cornerman o' a Christie Minstrel troupe, an' as pleased as a dog wi' two tails.
From Between the Lines by Cable, Boyd
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
Now, he said, the commission has to safeguard “the promoter, the cornermen, the production crew, the security, the officials and our staff.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2020
“I’m all right,” the champ told his cornermen as he sat on his stool at round’s end, before adding, glassy-eyed, “What’d he hit me with?”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2016
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
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