Definition of man's man in English English dictionary
- A man who is popular among men
- A man noted or admired for traditionally masculine interests and activities
(Hypothetical:Sean Connery's eulogy) "Sean's characters represented the pinnacle of what every man inspires to be. Intelligent, courageous, persuasive, confident and the object of womens fantasies. Indeed Sean always played a true man's man.".
- -man
- Someone (implied male) who has special characteristics relating to an area, e.g. freeman, iceman, superman
- -man
- Someone (implied male) who is employed or holds a position in an area; e.g lawman, newsman
- -man
- Someone (implied male) who is an expert in an area; e.g. horseman, sportsman
- -man
- In certain cases, someone (implied male) who derives from a particular nationality; e.g. Scotsman, Chinaman
- Abraham man
- One of a set of vagabonds / vagrants who, in the 1700s and 1800s, roamed through England, feigning mental illnesses to obtain alms
- Abram-man
- Variant of Abraham man
- Angry Young Man
- Any of a group of mostly working-class and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who rose to prominence in the 1950s, their works being characterized by harshness, realism, and disillusionment with traditional norms
- Essex Man
- A stereotype of a working class Conservative voter in the south-east of England, characterized by brash and right wing views and few cultural or intellectual interests but an interest in wealth and material goods
- Fat Man
- The nickname given to the nuclear bomb dropped over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945
- G-Man
- Any person working for the US Government, especially in undercover work
- G-Man
- A fictional character based on this definition, eg, Dick Tracy
- G-Man
- A US government agent fighting organized crime in the interwar years
- I see, said the blind man
- Said to express confusion
- Isle of Man
- An island in the Irish Sea, a British Crown dependency that is part of the British Isles but not of the United Kingdom
- Java man
- A purported species of primate, a supposed ancient descendant of human beings, given the scientific name Pithecanthropus erectus
- MAN
- Metropolitan Area Network; a large computer network usually spanning a city
- Man
- The genus Homo
- Man
- The Isle of Man
- Man
- Manitoba, a province of Canada
- Man U
- Abbreviation of Manchester United Football Club
- Man United
- Manchester United Football Club
- Man Upstairs
- God
God can't be found in unsanctified imaginations or in the caricatures of pop culture. He is not The Man Upstairs. He does not help those who help themselves..
- Man in Black
- the country musician Johnny Cash
- Man of the Match
- A player chosen as having made the most outstanding achievement during a match; awarded a small prize
- Mister Man
- Used to address a male, especially one whose name is not known to the speaker
'Who are you, Mister Man?' The boy sensed more about Burton than his name, but what a bust-up it would cause if I told him, Alma thought.
- New Man
- a man who, rejecting sexist attitudes, aims to be caring and sensitive, and to take a substantial role in the domestic routine
- Pac-Man
- Anything that consumes indiscriminately
Like the Pac-Man of garbage, Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) is gobbling up smaller waste disposal firms — 113 in 1994 alone — as that industry becomes increasingly consolidated.
- Portuguese man-of-war
- A floating colony of hydrozoans (Physalia physalis) attached to a float; it superficially resembles a jellyfish
- Pr. of Man.
- An abbreviation used for the Prayer of Manasseh, a book of the Apocrypha
- Son of Man
- Jesus Christ
- Tin Man
- The Tin Woodsman, a metallic character in the fictional Land of Oz who travels with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion to the Emerald City in search of a heart
- Vitruvian Man
- A drawing of anatomy created by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1487
- Wicker Man
- A giant effigy of a man used in Celtic rituals involving human sacrifice
- a good man is hard to find
- Men who make good husbands or workers are rare
- a man is known by the company he keeps
- People are similar in character to their friends
- a man's home is his castle
- a proverbial expression of personal privacy and security
- advance man
- A male advance person
- all-night-man
- a body snatcher or grave robber
- aye man
- yes!
- barrow man
- A man under sentence of transportation; alluding to the convicts at Woolwich, who are principally employed in wheeling barrows full of brick or dirt
- batty man
- A homosexual man
- bin man
- a male with the job of collecting refuse from people's homes and transporting it to a refuse tip for processing
- black man
- A (male) member of a racial group having dark skin colouring, typically of sub-Saharan African descent
- black man
- An evil spirit, a demon
he suspects everything he hears and sees to be a devil, or enchanted, and imagineth a thousand chimeras and visions, which to his thinking he certainly sees, bugbears, talks with black men, ghosts, goblins, etc.
- blind man's bluff
- A game where one person is blindfolded and tries to touch the other players
- blind man's buff
- A game where one person is blindfolded and tries to touch the other players
- butter-and-egg man
- A prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up
He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man.
- button man
- A contract killer; a professional assassin
- can man
- A firefighter whose task is to haul a fire extinguisher
Douglas Oelschlager was the can man, bringing up extinguishers.
- candy man
- A drug dealer
- candy man
- A person who sells sweets, especially a sidewalk or street vendor
There comes the candy-man! exclaimed a little fellow, pressing up to the side of the lady. Quick, ma! Here, candy-man! calling after an old man with a tin cylinder under his arm.
- candy-man
- Alternative spelling of candy man
- chi chi man
- A homosexual man
- clothes don't make the man
- An aphorism meaning that you cannot judge a person solely by his appearance. Usually pertains to men
- common man
- The average citizen, as contrasted with the social, political or cultural elite
- confidence man
- Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust
- dead man walking
- Someone who is about to die; someone condemned
- dead man's brake
- A brake that normally operates under pressure, but engages fully when all pressure is released
- dead man's brakes
- plural form of dead man's brake
- dead man's hand
- A pair of aces and a pair of eights, in a player's hand
- dead man's hand
- Other various hands, among them a full house of three jacks and two tens
- dead man's hand
- An ace and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
- dead man's switch
- a switch that automatically stops a machine or vehicle after a set period of inactivity from the operator
- dimber damber upright man
- The chief of a gang of thieves or gypsies
- dirty old man
- An adult male - usually middle-aged or elderly - who acts in a lecherous or lewd manner
Always shouts out something obscene / Such a dirty old man.
- drinking man's degree
- A lower second class honours or 2.2 degree
- early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- platitude from Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Poor Richard
- every man Jack
- All the members of a group with no exceptions
When the captain offered a free round of grog to the crew, every man Jack of them lined up for a cupful.
- every man for himself
- selfish
I quit showbusiness because there was too much of an every-man-for-himself attitude going on.
- every man for himself
- An expression of panic, that everyone should forget about comradeship and save themselves
- every man has a price
- Everyone can be bribed or corrupted for a certain price
- every man jack
- Alternative spelling of every man Jack
- face man
- A person who is used to present a good public face for an organization
- family man
- An adult male with a spouse and children to whose well-being he is dedicated
- fancy man
- : A woman's lover
- fellow man
- A kindred member of humanity
- footplate man
- The engineer, or driver of a locomotive
Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.
- front man
- striker, attacker, forward
- front man
- The lead singer in a musical group
Pete Doherty is the front man of the Libertines.
- garbage man
- Someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed
- gingerbread man
- A biscuit/cookie in the shape of a person and flavoured with ginger
- give a man a fish
- Shortened form of give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
- give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed h
- It is more worthwhile to teach someone to do something, than to do something for them
- government man
- A supporter of the government
- government man
- In the days when Australia was a penal colony: a convict
1888: Whatever it was that had happened to him in the old times when he was a Government man he didn’t talk about. — Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms.
- government man
- A representative of the government
- green man
- A character in British folklore often depicted as a foliate head
- hatchet man
- Someone who carries out brutal and unpleasant duties on behalf of another, such as firing dead wood employees
- hatchet man
- A professional killer
- he-man
- A strong, virile or sexually active man
- head man
- The person in charge of an organization, clan, tribe, or other group
- hit man
- Someone who kills for a living; a hired assassin
- hoo man
- An attention grabber
Hoo man, slow doon like!.
- hype man
- A hip-hop performer responsible for backup rapping and singing and increasing an audience’s excitement with call-and-response chants
- in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
- Among others with a disadvantage or disability, the one with the mildest disadvantage or disability is regarded as the greatest
- in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
- Even someone without much talent or ability is considered special by those with no talent or ability at all
- it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man t
- The rich can afford more immoral behavior than the poor
- joss pidgin man
- Alternative spelling of joss-pidgin-man
- kurdaitcha man
- An aboriginal mystic who made an expedition to perform sorcery wearing slippers made from the feathers of emus
- ladies man
- Alternative spelling of lady's man
- ladies' man
- Alternative spelling of lady's man
Among the Kro-lu she would find another mate after the manner of the strange Caspakian world; but she told me very frankly that whenever I returned, she would leave her mate and come to me, as she preferred me above all others. I was becoming a ladies' man after a lifetime of bashfulness!.
- lady's man
- A man who attracts women and enjoys their company
This promenading was chiefly patronised by the marines, and particularly by Colbrook, a remarkably handsome and very gentlemanly corporal among them. He was a complete lady's man; with fine black eyes, bright red cheeks, glossy jet whiskers, and a refined organisation of the whole man.
- lady's man
- A womanizer
He was the most celebrated portrait painter of his day, a notorious ladies man, obsessed with women, pale beauties dressed in extravagant gowns . . . or nothing at all.
- like a man
- bravely, decisively and without complaining
Don't be a wimp, deal with it like a man!.
- little green man
- A Martian
- little green man
- One of the supposed extraterrestrial occupants of UFOs
- little man in the boat
- The clitoris
- lollipop man
- A male school crossing attendant
- made man
- A person who has been through an induction ceremony into the Mafia or similar organisation
- made man
- A man whose fortune has been made
I had no money, but if I could only find workable country, I might stock it with borrowed capital, and consider myself a made man.
- main man
- One's closest male friend
As Moody says of his main man, Diz influenced me from every standpoint. He was a friend, a father, a confidante, just everything to me.
- man
- A piece or token used in board games such as chess
- man
- A person, usually male, who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing
Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I'm a cherry pie man.
- man
- A person, often male, with duties or skills associated with a specified thing
I always wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I'm a flag man on a road crew.
- man
- A mensch; a person of integrity and honor
He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house.
- man
- An interjection used to place emphasis upon something or someone
Geordie Giv'is a bottle of dog man!.
- man
- An abstract person; a person of either gender, usually an adult
every man for himself.
- man
- To take up position in order to operate something
Man the machine guns!.
- man
- An adult male human
- man
- To supply with staff or crew (of either sex)
The shipped was manned with a small crew.
- man
- All humans collectively; mankind, humankind. Also Man
God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
- man Friday
- A right-hand man
- man about town
- A worldly, social man who gets "about"
To Bertha this was a charm rather than a defect; his bashful candour touched her, and she compared it favourably with the foolish worldliness of the imaginary man about town whose dissipation she always opposed to her husband's virtues.
- man alive
- An expression of surprise
- man alive
- five
- man boob
- Large or womanly breasts on a man caused by pectoral fat, or sometimes a hormonal condition as gynecomastia
- man boobs
- plural form of man boob
- man cave
- A part of a home specifically reserved for adult male activities, such as drinking beer, playing games and watching TV; often a garage or den
- man caves
- plural form of man cave
- man child
- A male human being of a young age. A boy
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
- man children
- plural form of man child
- man crush
- A crush-like but non-sexual feeling of attraction toward and admiration for a man.“man crush” in Aaron Peckham (ed.), Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined, Andrews McMeel Publishing (2005), ISBN 0-7407-5143-3, page 217.“man crush” in KTCK's online “Ticktionary”: “One male being in awe of another male for any reason”, quoted in John Mark Dempsey, “KTCK, ‘The Ticket,’ Dallas-Fort Worth: ‘Radio by the Everyman, for the Everyman”, in John Mark Dempsey (ed.), Sports-talk Radio in America: Its Context And Culture, Haworth Press (2006), ISBN 0789025906, page 27
It's no secret that Texas has become my favorite college hoops team; my man-crush on Durant has reached the point that I should probably remain at least 100 yards away from him at all times.
- man crush
- A crush on (sexual attraction toward) a man
for a certain faction of American women, the accent is swoon-worthy on its own. I will confess that the Darcy accent I concocted in my head while reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time was a huge contributor to my fictional man crush.
- man crushes
- plural form of man crush
- man day
- The amount of work that one person can complete in one day, often considered to be equivalent to eight man hours
- man flu
- A cold or similar ailment as suffered by a male seen as wildly exaggerating the severity of his symptoms
- man ho
- A promiscuous man
Man, you crazy,” said Mikel. “ You just a straight up man ho, yo. You can’t be a playa for ever though.”.
- man in the moon
- A human face perceived in the full moon, comprising dark maria and light highlands
- man in the street
- A typical person, unversed in a given subject; an inexpert commoner
- man magnet
- A person, especially a woman, who is attractive to men
- man of God
- any godly man
- man of God
- a prophet
- man of God
- a minister or priest
- man of few words
- A man who doesn't speak much, or speaks only for a short period of time
- man of means
- A man who possesses sufficient wealth to be regarded as prosperous or well off
- man of parts
- A man that is talented in multiple areas of life. This includes but is not limited to the area of seduction. He puts very little emphasis on memorized scripts or "peacocking" and instead relies on individualized ways to charm a woman
- man of straw
- A tactic used in debates and arguments where a weaker thesis is substituted for the opponent's real proposition, this thesis then being refuted, thereby creating the illusion of winning the argument against the original proposition
- man of straw
- A weak person
When push came to shove he gave in almost immediately, showing that he was a man of straw after all.
- man of the cloth
- A male member of the clergy
- man of the hour
- A man who has recently caught the attention of, or is being admired or honoured by, a large number of people
- man of war
- an armed naval vessel
- man of war
- Portuguese man-of-war, a type of jellyfish
- man of war
- man of war bird, the magnificent frigatebird
- man of war
- a military man
- man on
- A cry warning a teammate of an incoming opponent
- man on the Clapham omnibus
- Any ordinary person; everyman
- man on the street
- Someone not an expert; a member of the general public
It is not only the man on the street who is characterized by taking one's own system of relevance for granted. This holds true for the expert,.
- man overboard
- A cry used to announce that one of the crew has fallen over the side of the vessel
- man page
- A helpfile in the Unix operating system
- man pages
- plural form of man page
- man proposes, God disposes
- Things don't always work out as they were planned
- man talk
- A discussion between male colleagues seen as inappropriate for female ears. Often involves dirty jokes and discussions about sports
- man tit
- Gynecomastia, large or womanly breasts on a male
- man tits
- plural form of man tit
- man up
- to assemble, each person manning (attending to) his station, prepared for departure of an aircraft, ship, etc
- man up
- to "be a man about it"; to do the things a good man is traditionally expected to do, such as: taking responsibility for the consequences of one's actions; displaying bravery or toughness in the face of adversity; providing for one's family, etc
Hey son, man up, ok? There will be time for tears later.
- man up
- to vigorously guard the opponent to which one is assigned
I had to man up on their rover, and every time I went for the ball he tried to hit me.
- man up
- to staff adequately; to staff up; to successfully fill all needed labor positions
- man'yōgana
- A letter thereof
- man'yōgana
- The early Japanese syllabary using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds; the predecessor of hiragana and katakana
- man-
- Denoting a relation to men or masculinity
- man-
- Denoting a relation to humans or humanity
- man-about-town
- Alternative spelling of man about town. (A worldly, social man.)
The man-about-town began to follow her, but along the other side of the boulevard, keeping his eyes trained on her.
- man-at-arms
- A medieval heavily armed mounted member of the cavalry
- man-bag
- The equivalent of a woman's small handbag designed for use by men, having compartments for mobile phones etc
Unisex styling gave the ‘man-bag’ its brief moment and many rough hewn embroidered denim and handtooled leather shoulder bags were worn by both sexes.
- man-boob
- Alternative spelling of man boob
- man-child
- Alternative spelling of man child
- man-day
- One person's working time for a day, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task
- man-eater
- An animal that has a reputation for eating humans, such as the tiger or shark
- man-eater
- A cannibal
- man-eater
- A woman with a threatening attitude, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners
- man-hour
- The amount of work that can be done by one person in an hour
Since 1950 our agricultural output per man-hour has actually doubled!.
- man-in-the-middle
- An adversary that intercepts, and often modifies, communications
- man-killer
- A murderer
- man-killer
- Someone who habitually seduces men
- man-killer
- An animal that kills humans
- man-machine
- Of or pertaining to a system that includes both human and machine and/or their interface
The man-machine system is a combination of people and equipment interacting to produce a desired result from given inputs. .
- man-machine
- A state of "oneness", between a programmer and his computer. When the observer cannot readily identify the transition between the human programmer (usually some form of system engineer) and the computer
- man-mark
- To mark an opposition player closely
- man-month
- One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task
- man-o'-war
- an armed naval vessel
- man-o'-war suit
- A suit, especially worn in the 19th century, with long trousers and wide-brimmed straw sailor hat
She had an open book on her knees and was pointing out something in it to Constantine who, dressed in a man-o'-war suit, lay at her feet. - The Dead, from Dubliners, by James Joyce.
- man-o-war
- Portuguese man-of-war, a kind of jellyfish
- man-of-letters
- Attributive form of man of letters
Carlyle in his man-of-letters patronage missed the craft with which the angry Corn-Law rhymester rhymester of The Village Patriarch meant to reclaim the people’s half.
- man-of-war
- The Portuguese man-of-war, a kind of jellyfish
- man-of-war
- An armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails
- man-portable
- That can be transported on a person. Often used about military weapons systems; e.g. missiles
Man-portable missiles imperil both military, civilian aircraft.: An article from: National Defense by Sandra I. Erwin.
- man-sized
- That needs manly attributes, such as strength or endurance
- man-sized
- Of a size suitable for a man; larger than normal
- man-tiger
- mandrill
- man-to-man
- direct, forthright and honest
- man-to-man
- one-on-one
- man-to-man defense
- A defense in which each player guards a particular opposing player
They'll have trouble playing a man-to-man against such a fast guard and tall center.
- man-witch
- A male witch; a warlock
- man-year
- One person's working time for a year, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task
- man.
- manager; management
- medicine man
- A Native American shamanistic healer
- mod man
- A person who experiments with and modifies the internals of machinery, electronics, or software that has been mass-produced; a creative mechanic or technician
My understanding on the 398/909 is that Sangean built the radio this way basically for the European market...to prevent overloading. If you search this newsgroup, you will find mods mentioned (by the great mod man RickW) that correct this condition.
- mod man
- A man who is modern in style
Back behind The Factory's burnished long bar, Patrick squints through all the whirring green and red and yellow lights, all the heaving bodies, until he catches the eye of a quiet mod man who sits back in the shadows with his blonde wife, seeing and unseen.
- night soil man
- A person whose occupation it was to collect the contents of chamber pots (faeces) in the morning from domestic households, principally in the 18th and 19th centuries
- no man is an island
- All people are connected to other people and dependent on other people
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind,.
- no man's land
- Territory, often disputed, that cannot be inhabited because of fear of conflict, especially:
- no man's land
- The area between the backcourt and the space close to the net, from which it is difficult to return the ball
- no man's land
- The stretch of land between the border posts of two contiguous sovereign states, sometimes separated by great distance
- no man's land
- A place where no one can or should be
Now, George, if you’re going to consider this question from the point of view of poetry, you’re off to No Man’s Land, where I won’t follow you.
- no man's land
- Tracts of uninhabited territory close to the Iron Curtain
- no man's land
- The ground between trenches where a soldier from either side would be easily targeted
- no man's land
- Land not claimed by any recognized sovereign state; terra nullius
