emcee
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation spelling of MC (“master of ceremonies”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
emcee (plural emcees)
- Alternative form of MC in its senses as
- 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."
- 1943, "Franklin W. Dixon" (Charles Leslie McFarlane), Hardy Boys 22: The Flickering Torch Mystery:
- (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.
- 2021, Jehnie I. Burns, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation (page 138)
- Master of ceremonies.
Verb edit
emcee (third-person singular simple present emcees, present participle emceeing, simple past and past participle emceed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To act as the master of ceremonies (for).
- 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist[1], number 61, retrieved 2022-11-13, 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.
- (intransitive, music) To rap as part of a hip-hop performance.
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
act as the master of ceremonies