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A member (of any gender) of a team of comic performers who plays a supporting role by helping to set up jokes and punch lines through engaging in dialog with another comedian playing a more eccentric or otherwise more interesting character; a foil who plays such a role in theatrical comedy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Examples
- For many years Bud Abbott served brilliantly as Lou Costello's deadpan straight man.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: setup man, stooge, second banana
Antonyms: none provided
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straight, man; for example, a heterosexual man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The committee consisted of two lesbians and a straight man.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: second banana
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: performer, performing artist
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
捧哏
(pěng gēn)
— supporting comic
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Czech:
nahrávač
— supporting comic
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Finnish:
tavallinen mies
— supporting comic
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French:
clown blanc
— supporting comic
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German:
Stichwortgeber
— supporting comic
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German:
Stichwortgeberin
— supporting comic
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Hungarian:
hétköznapi embert/figurát játszó/alakító komikus
— supporting comic
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Italian:
spalla
— supporting comic
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Japanese:
ツッコミ
(tsukkomi)
— supporting comic
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Polish:
postać stanowiąca obiekt żartów komika
— supporting comic
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Portuguese:
escada
— supporting comic
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Turkish:
komedyen yardakçısı
— supporting comic
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Turkish:
şamaroğlanı
— supporting comic
