A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
This was once used as a term of address to the driver of a horse-drawn vehicle.
‘Keep the box for me, leader,’ Sir Pitt Crawley tells the coachman, in Vanity Fair, by William Thackeray. The word might also be used to the player of the leading hand in a game of cards, or to the person acting as leader of any group of people. In Sophie Tucker’s autobiographical account Some of These Dayst for example, ‘Go ahead, leader’ is said by the singer to the leader of the orchestra.
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