linkman

From link +‎ -man. See link (“torch, light”).

linkman (plural linkmen)

1. (historical) An adult linkboy; one bearing a torch or light.

   Synonym: torchbearer

2. (rugby) A player who uses speed and dexterity to keep an attacking team's downfield progress fluid.
3. A man who acts as a link or connection.
   • 1997, Girja Kumar, The book on trial: fundamentalism and censorship in India, page 115:

     Sajjad Zaheer was the linkman with the literary community on behalf of the nascent communist movement of India.

4. (broadcasting) A presenter who provides the connecting verbiage between a number of separate items in a broadcast.

• “linkman” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

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