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)
- "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."
- "And somewhere over there in the corner is Horatio Oléré, master perfumer and minority shareholder."
- "And in the leopard-skin corner, all the way from the Amazon, Horatio "The Anaconda" Oléré!"
- "On the corner is a banker with a motorcar, the little children laugh at him behind his back."
- "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."
- "In the pink corner, all the way from Oxford, England, Brian "the butcher" Jones!"
- "I saw the cleaning man killing mice with his bare hands, and stacking them up in a pile in the corner."
- "You've missed some trash over in that corner."
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