Legman

Quick meaning: Legman is a noun meaning (originally US) A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner.

Meaning

(originally US) A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner.

More Meanings

1. (originally US, journalism) A reporter who frequently travels to conduct research, interview witnesses, etc., and then conveys the information to a rewriteman who writes up the story.

Example Sentences

[W]ell, anyway, he sent a chap who acts as his confidential ‘leg-man’ and ‘Man Friday’.

Guillam was boss and legman, and twice a day he dropped the tapes on the Berne residency, using a parked car as a letter-box.

Once in Hollywood he [Andrew J. Fenady] became a legman for Paul Coates, which led to writing and producing Coates' controversial television series, Confidential File, winner of three Emmy awards.

Their targets included kings and commoners, civilians and soldiers, military recruits and senior commanders, political legmen and party chairmen, businessmen and academicians, journalists and belletrists—and ultimately a train of victims' families: husbands, wives, and children.

Word Forms

• legmen
• leg man

Synonyms for legman

Depending on context, synonyms include gofer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include logman, bellboy, deliveryman, loadsman, leverman, runner.

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