straightmanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• Compound noun
  • IPA: /ˈstɹeɪtˌmæn/
• Sum of parts sense
  • IPA: /ˌstɹeɪt ˈmæn/, IPA: /ˈstɹeɪt ˌmæn/ (variable per prosodic emphasis in each clause)

名詞

straight man (plural straight men)

1. (idiomatic) 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.

   Synonyms: setup man, stooge, second banana

   Coordinate term: straight woman

   For many years Bud Abbott served brilliantly as Lou Costello's deadpan straight man.

   • 2010, Caroline Graham, A Ghost in the Machine, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     Recently he had successfully concluded a case featuring a poet who wore only latex, lived on liquorice allsorts and worshipped a horse she believed to be the reincarnation of Radclyffe Hall. And she was the straight man.

   • 1982 April, Pam Hait, “Sandra Day O’Connor: Warm, Witty and Wise”, in The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 99, page 46:

     She was the straight man, he was the comedian, and their audience was “standing room only” when they stepped up to the microphone.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straight,‎ man; for example, a heterosexual man.

   The committee consisted of two lesbians and a straight man.

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