end man

American  

noun

1. a man at one end of a row or line.

2. 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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Etymology

Origin of end man

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Example Sentences

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end man

But on the other end, man, that World Series ring is something every player should want and strive to get.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2011

"Because a fellow has six talking machines," said the boarder who wants to be an end man, "it doesn't follow that he is a Mormon."

From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)

For a moment I caught sight of Ayisha peering timidly between the end man and the wall—to see, I suppose, whether the Lion was dead yet—but the minute I caught her eye she disappeared.

From The Lion of Petra by Mundy, Talbot

By the right flank, column fours, march— watch your distance there, end man!

From Jimmie Higgins by Sinclair, Upton

Through the moral end, man is ideally identified with God, who, indeed, is necessarily conceived as man's moral ideal regarded as already and eternally real.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir