anchorman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The main male presenter of a television or radio news programme.

   The anchorman opened the evening broadcast with the top story.

2. 2
   noun

   The final and usually fastest runner in a relay race team.

   As anchorman, he had to make up the gap in the last lap.

From anchor + man. Senses 1 and 4 derive from sense 2, sense 3 is literal.

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