end man

  1. a man at the end of a row
  2. ☆ in a minstrel show, the comic performer at each end of the first row, for whom the interlocutor serves as a foil

See end man in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. The person at the end of a line or row.
  2. The man in a minstrel show who sits at one end of the company and engages in banter with the interlocutor.
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