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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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
To be Pacquiao’s main cornerman includes doing the mitts, which means putting pads on each hand and moving them for a sequence of hard punches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
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
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 Boyd Cable
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
In the case of UFC fighters, this legal distinction means that fighters bear the cost of their own expenses, such as training camps, and flights and accommodation for cornermen.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018
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 Brother Jabez
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