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A member of a team of comic performers who plays a supporting role by helping to set…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.

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