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Definition: Straight Man |
Straight ManNoun1. A performer who acts as stooge to a comedian. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | An actor or other entertainer whose main function is to feed lines to a comedian. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That's it. You're hopeless, you're pathetic, you're the worst straight man I ever worked with (The Kids in the Hall; writing credit: Dave Foley; Bruce McCulloch) There is no emotions or words that go on between us! I'm behaving like a straight man and it's making me sick (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) When I took this job, I never imagined I would end up playing straight man to a tin can (The Black Hole; writing credit: Jeb Rosebrook; Bob Barbash) | |
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Books | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "straight man"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 突っ込み (penetration, rape). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つっ"み (penetration, rape). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aightstray anmay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-h-i-m-n-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: hamstring, tarantism. | |
-3 letters: granitas, martians, mattings, migrants, smarting, starting, stigmata, straight, tamarins, tangrams, trangams, transmit, trashing, trashman. | |
-4 letters: against, amritas, antiars, antisag, armings, artisan, athirst, attains, garnish, gastrin, grahams, granita, gratins, hangars, harming, harmins, hasting, hatting, magians, mantras, margins, marinas, martian, marting, martins, mashing, masting, matings, matting, mattins, migrant, ratings, rattans, ratting, rattish. | |
-5 letters: aahing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-h-i-m-n-r-s-t-t" | |
+3 letters: antilogarithms. | |
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