frontman

[ fruhnt-man ]

/ ˈfrʌntˌmæn /

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noun, plural front·men

[fruhnt-men]. /ˈfrʌntˌmɛn/.

a performer, as a singer, who leads a musical group.

a person who serves as the nominal head of an organization and who represents it publicly.

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Also especially for 2, front man .

Origin of frontman

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40; front + man

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How to use frontman in a sentence

And, as the enigmatic front man to an avant garde indie rock group, he is droll, perceptive, and splendidly weird.
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Even Mr. 9/11, Rudy Giuliani, now a corporate front man, made that point on CNBC.
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Is the former White Stripes front man the last of a dying breed?
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Off the job, Aldridge is happily married to Kings of Leon front man Caleb Followill.
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But the question is: how much top-flight talent can they recruit if Greenwald remains the organization's apparent front man?
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They were weary, ragged, lean—seven very tatter-demalions—and the front man led them, tapping the ground with a long stick.
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His hands caught the man behind, lifted across a hip, and heaved, just before the front man reached him.
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The front man jumped one way and the woman jumped the same way so he couldn't get by.
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When the last, or front man on each team is able to whistle after devouring his crackers, the race ends.
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Suddenly the front man slipped and the prop fell down in the mud and splashed the thin man from head to foot.
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British Dictionary definitions for frontman

front man

noun informal

a nominal leader of an organization, etc, who lacks real power or authority, esp one who lends respectability to some nefarious activityGender-neutral form: figurehead

the leader or visual focus of a group of musicians, usually the singer

Also called: front person

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