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Corner-man. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Corner-man 1.  The end man of a row of ‘negro minstrels.’

1 1873.  Slang Dict., s.v., There are two corner men, one generally plays the bones and the other the tambourine. Corner-men are the grotesques of a minstrel company.

2 1884.  Sat. Rev., 7 June, 740/1. At the ends are Bones and Tambo, the ‘end-men,’ who are known in England, oddly enough, as the ‘corner-men.’

3   2.  One who lounges about street-corners, a street ‘loafer’ or ‘rough.’ Cf. corner-boy, c.-cove (CORNER sb. 16).

4 1885.  Chamb. Jrnl., 28 Feb., 136/1. Curley Bond was well known in the district [in London] as a loafer and ‘corner-man.’

5 1886.  Sat. Rev., 13 Feb., 219. Processions of the most peaceful character are protected against corner-men and roughs.

6 1890.  Daily News, 10 April, 5/1. The ruffianism of Birmingham is unfortunately the ruffianism of the entire kingdom…. If Birmingham has its claqueurs, Liverpool has its corner men.

7   3.  Comm. One who makes a CORNER (sb. 14).

8 1881.  Daily News, 28 Sept., 4/7. A corner properly speaking may be called a secondary not a primary speculation. Some one has taken liberties with the market by speculatively selling what he has not got; and the cornerman comes in and plays Prince HAL and POINS by spoiling the spoiler.

9 1887.  Guardian, 23 June, 925. The forestallers of the middle ages are reproduced in the corner-men of to-day.

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