Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The clown in a circus or similar show.
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Examples
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Jimmy also pulls up a seat at Judges' Table, but will this funny-man be able to deliver some not-so-great news to one of the remaining 8 Chef'testants?
Michelle Weber: Top Chef All-Stars Liveblog: Jimmy Fallon Guest Judges Michelle Weber 2011
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Who could forget the funny-man truck driver from the Smokey and the Bandit series?
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Jimmy also pulls up a seat at Judges' Table, but will this funny-man be able to deliver some not-so-great news to one of the remaining 8 Chef'testants?
Michelle Weber: Top Chef All-Stars Liveblog: Jimmy Fallon Guest Judges Michelle Weber 2011
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The character has to do these crazy car commercials, so we thought maybe we were looking for a funny-man who wanted to show a serious side.
Cynthia Ellis: Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Robert Kirbyson Writes and Directs Snowmen 2010
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Though she looked and looked, scanned the crowd, Joyce Carol Oates was away in a sea of faces, and Giselle was left with the funny-man, who she now saw was much older than she, lined face and weathered cheeks, a scar under his eye.
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As she stepped onto the campus, she saw a funny-man, a great shock of red hair and black clothes and silver-blue eyes, juggling bricks for, of all people, Joyce Carol Oates and a crowd of sycophants.
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The local Torontonian, who at 14, must hold his own against funny-man Rob Corrdry.
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Even the spectre of over-exposed funny-man Jon Stewart (who somehow has been appointed the Lenny Bruce of spankin 'villians who don't matter -- I mean talking about lowering your targets here -- playing gotacha' with the seldom-watched financial jester Cramer?)
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Photoshop funny-man Donnie Hoyle tackles displacement in the most recent tutorial of his “You Suck at Photoshop” series, explaining how to insert new layers on top of photos without making them look out of place.
Blend Layers in Photoshop with Displacement | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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I first saw a teaser for the upcoming war drama Passchendaele starring Canadian mostly funny-man Paul Gross at a First Weekend Club screening.
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