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end man
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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Word History and Origins
Origin of end man1
An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
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Example Sentences
But always in the end man must come back to this moral tragedy of the soul.
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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.
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Then they selected a wise young goose who had been end man the year before, and they made him their leader.
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It was a hazardous journey, but he succeeded in crawling to within a few yards of the end man and passed a message along.
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Firing had now ceased, and I took my time, and soon was the tail-end man of what was left of us.
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