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hype man
[ hahyp man ]
noun
- (in rap music) a supporting performer who energizes and engages the audience and punctuates the rapper’s lyrics with shouted interjections:
The show ran out of steam without a hype man to keep the crowd excited and the rapper on point.
- an enthusiastic and vocal supporter or promoter of a person, group, or thing; booster:
His antics from the bench have made this rookie college basketball’s most recognizable hype man.
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Origin of hype man1
Example Sentences
While he speaks to me from his home in Sierra Leone, a rooster crows in the background, punctuating his sentences like a barnyard hype man.
The pitchside hype man needn't have worried.
Bassist Vincent Price, drummer Ill Will and rhythm guitarist Juan of the Dead round out the lineup with Ice’s son, Little Ice, his middle child, the band’s hype man and backing vocalist since 2016.
Yet Walz was here playing hype man and encouraging folks to canvass their friends and family to vote for her husband and Harris in a few short weeks.
This seemed far more dangerous than any hype man screaming about the evils of the secular world.
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