end man

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noun

a man at one end of a row or line.

a man at either end of the line of performers of a minstrel troupe, who plays on the bones or tambourine and carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor.

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Origin of end man

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Words nearby end man

end leaf, endless, end line, endling, endlong, end man, end matter, end member, end mill, endmost, endnote

How to use end man in a sentence

But always in the end man must come back to this moral tragedy of the soul.
Preaching and Paganism|Albert Parker Fitch
It isn't the shy and the timid who get the applause; the clown in tinsel and the end man in cork divide easy honors.
Rosemary and Rue|Amber
Then they selected a wise young goose who had been end man the year before, and they made him their leader.
Tell Me Another Story|Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
It was a hazardous journey, but he succeeded in crawling to within a few yards of the end man and passed a message along.
The Fifth Leicestershire|J.D. Hills

Firing had now ceased, and I took my time, and soon was the tail-end man of what was left of us.
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865|Leander Stillwell