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発音

• enPR: ĕm'sē', IPA: /ˌɛmˈsiː/
• 韻: -iː

名詞

emcee (plural emcees)

1. Alternative form of MC in its senses as
   1. Master of ceremonies.
      • 1943, "Franklin W. Dixon" (Charles Leslie McFarlane), Hardy Boys 22: The Flickering Torch Mystery:

        "I'm the emcee for tonight," he proclaimed. "I'll announce your program."

      • 2025 February 24, Sophie Clark, “Woman Forcibly Dragged Out Of Idaho Town Hall: What We Know So Far”, in Newsweek‎:

        The emcee of the event, Ed Bejarana, called Borrenpohl a "little girl," at the town hall, saying: "This little girl does not want to leave. She spoke up and now does not want to suffer the consequences."

   2. (music) A rapper.
      • 2021, Jehnie I. Burns, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation (page 138)

        […] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats.

派生語

動詞

emcee (third-person singular simple present emcees, present participle emceeing, simple past and past participle emceed)

1. (ambitransitive) To act as the master of ceremonies (for).
   • 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist‎, number 61, retrieved 13 November 2022, page 11:

     Alan Lomax was emceeing the blues workshop and was turned off by the Paul Butterfield Jug Band and implied as much on stage.

2. (intransitive, music) To rap as part of a hip-hop performance.

同意語

• (act as the master of ceremonies): compere (UK)
• (rap): See rap

参考

• hip-hop
• rap

アナグラム

• Meece