Definition
a corner: an angle, a point where two lines meet
I hurt myself on the corner of the table. It's very sharp!
My house is located on the corner of this street. It's where Main Street meets Grovener Road.
to corner (someone, a market): to monopolize, to control, to block (someone, a market)
- "I saw the cleaning man killing mice with his bare hands, and stacking them up in a pile in the corner."
- "On the corner is a banker with a motorcar, the little children laugh at him behind his back."
- "And in the leopard-skin corner, all the way from the Amazon, Horatio "the anaconda" Oléré!"
- "Hey, you in the corner, we haven't heard from you in a while."
- "You've missed some trash over in that corner."
- "In the pink corner, all the way from Oxford, England, Brian "the butcher" Jones!"
- "Wooden beams and bookshelves... There's a roaring fire in the corner... And over there's the games area, with a dartboard and a pool table."
- "And in the leopard-skin corner, all the way from the Amazon, Horatio "The Anaconda" Oléré!"
- "In the pink corner, all the way from Oxford, England, Brian "The Butcher" Jones!"
- "And somewhere over there in the corner is Horatio Oléré, master perfumer and minority shareholder."
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