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

Experienced men grimly and remorselessly had pitted their long years of experience against the instincts and cunning of a colony of beavers, and, as it always is, in the end, man must conquer.

From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by Laughlin, J. E.

In tending toward this end, man humiliates himself.

From The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Tucker, Benjamin R.

Toward this end man strives; and it is this which furnishes him with the law of his action.

From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by Fullerton, George Stuart

Sometimes he thought he would like to be a clown, or "end man" in a minstrel troupe.

From The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Paine, Albert Bigelow