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The person professionally responsible for your party not dying.
means The host who introduces acts, fills dead air, and keeps an event moving from one moment to the next.
from Simply the letters 'M' and 'C' said aloud — short for 'Master of Ceremonies,' a term that originally described the official in charge of court or church ritual. By the early 20th century it had slid into show business for whoever ran the show from the stage, and the phonetic spelling 'emcee' stuck as its own word, later embraced wholesale by hip-hop as another word for an MC/rapper who commands the mic.
- etymology
- Literally just the letters M.C. said aloud
- origin
- Master of ceremonies, shortened by lazy tongues
- hip-hop shift
- Became the rapper holding the mic, not the host
- core skill
- Filling silence so it never becomes awkward