man : Idioms & Phrases

• an African magician or fetich priest.

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• a conspicuous or eminent man.

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• a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it, as, for excellence or depravity; usually with an unfavorable suggestion.

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A"bra*ham-man`, A"bram-man` noun (Also<

• Abraham-man
• Abram-man

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1. One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. Goldsmith.

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• noun last 2 million years
  Quaternary period; Quaternary.
  

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• noun hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings
  missing link.
  
• noun a person assumed to have been raised by apes
  

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A"pron man`

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1. A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic. Obs. Shak.

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• noun someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
  stand-in; fill-in; substitute; relief; backup; reliever.
  
  • the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes
  • we need extra employees for summer fill-ins

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• noun a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow
  costermonger; barrow-boy.
  

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• noun a man who raises (or tends) cattle
  cattleman; beef man.
  

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• noun the principal groomsman at a wedding
  

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• the only or principal groomsman at a wedding ceremony.

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• noun a human being whose body has been taken over in whole or in part by electromechanical devices
  cyborg; bionic woman.
  
  • a cyborg is a cybernetic organism

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• noun a man who is Black
  

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• noun possible early Homo sapiens represented by a cranium found in the Transvaal; formerly considered a separate species
  

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• noun an outstanding person; as if produced by boiling down a savory broth
  broth of a boy.
  

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• noun a man who is a careerist
  

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• noun someone who lives in a cave
  caveman; cave dweller; troglodyte.
  

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• noun a financier who works in one of the banks in the City of London
  

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• noun a student (or former student) at a college or university
  collegian; college boy.
  

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• noun a person who holds no title
  common person; commoner.
  

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• noun an employee whose first loyalty is to the company rather than to fellow workers
  

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• noun a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim
  con artist; con man.
  

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• noun a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim
  con artist; con man.
  

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• a swindler.

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• noun a witch doctor who practices conjury
  conjurer; conjuror.
  

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• noun a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show; carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor
  corner man.
  

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• noun a man who raises (or tends) cattle
  cattleman; beef man.
  

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• noun someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business
  customer's broker; account executive; account representative; registered representative.
  

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• noun a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward
  prone float.
  

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• noun the fruiting bodies of the fungi of the genus Xylaria
  Xylaria polymorpha; dead-men's-fingers.
  

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De*coy"-man` noun

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1. A man employed in decoying wild fowl.

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• noun a middle-aged man with lecherous inclinations
  

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• noun a man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife
  grass widower.
  

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• noun a man employed to operate an elevator
  liftman; elevator boy.
  
  • in England they call an elevator man a liftman

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• noun a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show; carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor
  corner man.
  
• noun a man at one end of a row of people
  

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• the last man in a row; one of the two men at the extremities of a line of minstrels.

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• noun a male enlisted person in the armed forces
  

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• noun a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat
  otolaryngologist; rhinolaryngologist; ear-nose-and-throat doctor; otorhinolaryngologist.
  

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• noun (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death
  

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• noun a man whose family is of major importance in his life
  

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• . (a) A man who has a family; esp., one who has a wife and children living with him andd dependent upon him. (b) A man of domestic habits. "The Jews are generally, when married, most exemplary family men." Mayhew.

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• noun someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
  pander; procurer; pimp; ponce; pandar; panderer.
  
• noun a woman's lover
  paramour.
  

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• noun a person who is not socialized
  feral man.
  

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• noun a specialist in identifying fingerprints
  fingerprint expert; fingerprint specialist.
  

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• (Naut.), a common sailor; also, a man stationed to attend to the gear of the foremast.

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• noun someone who has run the mile in less that 4 minutes
  

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• noun a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
  figurehead; nominal head; front; strawman; front man.
  

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Full"-manned` adjective

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1. Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship.

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• noun a special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
  G-man; FBI agent.
  

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• noun someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse
  garbageman; garbage collector; refuse collector; garbage carter; dustman; garbage hauler.
  

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• noun a homosexual man
  shirtlifter.
  

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• noun gingerbread cut in the shape of a person
  

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• . (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry. (b) A goldsmith's apprentice. (c) An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he looks like a gold-end man." B. Jonson.

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• a cleaner of privies. Obs.

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• noun a special law-enforcement agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
  G-man; FBI agent.
  

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• noun a professional killer
  iceman.
  
• noun one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior
  enforcer.
  

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Hatchet man

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1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.
2. A person who deliberately tries to ruin the reputation of another, often unscrupulously, by slander or other malicious communication, often with political motive, and sometimes for pay.

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• noun a man who is virile and sexually active
  he-man; stud.
  

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• noun a type of primitive man who lived in Europe
  Homo heidelbergensis.
  

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• noun a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
  hired hand; hand.
  
  • the hired hand fixed the railing
  • a ranch hand

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• noun a professional killer who uses a gun
  gunslinger; hired gun; shooter; gun; triggerman; hitman; gunman; torpedo; gun for hire.
  

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• noun an armed thief
  holdup man.
  

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• noun person of exceptional holiness
  holy person; angel; saint.
  

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• noun a strong man of exceptional physical endurance
  ironman.
  

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• (Cotton Manuf.), a name for the self-acting spinning mule.

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• noun one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
  Man.
  

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• noun fossil remains found in Java; formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus
  Java man.
  

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• noun a man who takes advantage of women
  lady killer; seducer.
  

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• a man who affects the society of ladies.

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• noun actor who plays the leading male role
  

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• noun unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico
  American spikenard; Aralia racemosa; petty morel.
  

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• noun a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
  lookout; picket; sentry; watch; scout; spotter; sentinel.
  

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• noun a man who is virile and sexually active
  he-man; stud.
  

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• noun a skilled worker whose job is to repair things
  maintenance man; repairman.
  

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• noun two people who are married to each other
  marriage; married couple.
  
  • his second marriage was happier than the first
  • a married couple without love

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• (Zoöl.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla.

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• a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for a soldier fully armed.

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• a mechanical lift for raising or lowering people through considerable distances; specifically (Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by successive stages.

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• noun the most helpful assistant
  man Friday; chief assistant.
  

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• a person wholly subservient to the will of another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday.

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• noun a time unit used in industry for measuring work
  person hour.
  

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• noun a hypothetical average man
  Joe Bloggs; Joe Blow; John Doe.
  

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• noun a single individual
  
  • every man jack

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• noun someone inclined to act first and think later
  man of action.
  

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• noun a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
  businessman.
  

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• noun someone inclined to act first and think later
  man of action.
  

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• noun a man devoted to literary or scholarly activities
  

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• noun a man who is wealthy
  rich man; man of means.
  

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• a puppet; one who is controlled by others; also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily.

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• noun a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
  reverend; clergyman.
  

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• noun a worldly-wise person
  sophisticate.
  

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• . (a) A warrior; a soldier . Shak. (b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary.

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• noun the body of an adult man
  adult male body.
  

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• noun clothing that is designed for men to wear
  

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• noun a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure
  Corinthian; playboy.
  

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• noun a heavily armed and mounted soldier in medieval times
  

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• noun a child who is male
  male offspring.
  

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• noun a person who eats human flesh
  anthropophagite; cannibal; anthropophagus.
  
• noun large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
  great white shark; Carcharodon carcharias; white shark; man-eater.
  

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Man"-eat`er noun

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1. (Zoöl.) One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.

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• noun large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
  great white shark; Carcharodon carcharias; white shark; man-eater.
  

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• adjective satellite not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially
  synthetic; semisynthetic.
  
  • man-made fibers
  • synthetic leather

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• noun fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes
  synthetic fiber.
  

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• noun lake used to store water for community use
  artificial lake; reservoir.
  

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• (Bot.), a twining plant (Ipomoea pandurata) with leaves and flowers much like those of the morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous root.

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• noun a morning glory with long roots of western United States
  Ipomoea leptophylla.
  
• noun tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
  wild sweet potato vine; scammonyroot; wild potato vine; Ipomoea panurata; manroot; Ipomoea fastigiata.
  

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• noun a warship intended for combat
  ship of the line.
  
• noun large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
  man-of-war; jellyfish.
  

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• noun long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail
  frigate bird.
  

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• a sailor serving in a ship of war.

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• noun an edible agaric with yellow gills and a viscid yellow cap that has a brownish center
  Tricholoma flavovirens.
  

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• adjective satellite portable by one man
  

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• adjective satellite calling for the strength of a man
  
  • a man-sized job
• adjective satellite very large; appropriate to the size of a man
  
  • a man-sized piece of cake

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• adjective satellite forthright and honest
  
  • had a man-to-man talk about the facts of life
• adjective satellite being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player
  one-on-one.
  
  • one-on-one defense
• adverb directly
  
  • we must talk man-to-man

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• noun wild sheep of northern Africa
  aoudad; Barbary sheep; audad; Ammotragus lervia; arui.
  

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• noun reddish-grey wolf of southwestern North America
  red wolf; Canis rufus; Canis niger.
  

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• noun a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
  hubby; husband.
  

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• a man disposed to marry. Colloq.

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• noun an automaton that resembles a human being
  android; humanoid.
  

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• noun someone who practices medicine
  medical practitioner.
  

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• noun a Native American shaman
  

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• (among the North American Indians), a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of magic.

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• noun a man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old
  

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• noun someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
  serviceman; military personnel; man.
  
  • two men stood sentry duty

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• noun a person who claims or is alleged to perform miracles
  miracle worker.
  

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• noun subspecies of Homo sapiens; includes all modern races
  Homo sapiens sapiens.
  

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• noun a man who lives on the frontier
  backwoodsman; frontiersman.
  

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• noun formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins
  

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• noun a serviceman in the navy
  bluejacket; sailor; sailor boy.
  

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• noun extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
  Homo sapiens neanderthalensis; Neanderthal; Neandertal; Neandertal man.
  

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• noun extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
  Homo sapiens neanderthalensis; Neanderthal; Neandertal; Neandertal man.
  

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• noun an unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies
  
• noun land that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable)
  
• noun the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)
  twilight zone.
  
  • but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal
  • in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity
  • in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression

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No"-man's` land`

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1. (Naut.) A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for.
2. Fig.: An unclaimed space or time.

   That no-man's land of twilight. W. Black.

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• noun someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group
  kook; queer duck; queer bird; odd fish; odd fellow.
  

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• noun a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks
  handyman; jack of all trades.
  

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• noun a man who is very old
  graybeard; greybeard; Methuselah.
  
• noun a familiar term of address for a man
  old boy.
  
• noun an informal term for your father
  
• noun aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe
  Artemisia absinthium; common wormwood; lad's love; absinthe.
  
• noun (slang) boss
  

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• noun whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States
  Tetraneuris grandiflora; alpine sunflower; Hymenoxys grandiflora.
  

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• noun dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
  black moss; Spanish moss; long moss; Tillandsia usneoides.
  
• noun vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn
  Clematis vitalba; traveller's joy; traveler's joy.
  
• noun common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
  devil's darning needle; Clematis virginiana; virgin's bower.
  

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• . (Bot.) (a) The traveler's joy (Clematis Vitalba). So named from the abundant long feathery awns of its fruit. (b) The Tillandsia usneoides. See Tillandsia.

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• (Bot.), a columnar cactus (Pilocereus senilis), native of Mexico, covered towards the top with long white hairs.

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• noun edible mild-tasting mushroom found in coniferous woodlands of eastern North America
  Strobilomyces floccopus.
  

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• adjective satellite designed for or restricted to a single person
  one-person; one-woman.
  
  • a one-man show
  • a one-person tent
  • Sarah Silverman's hilarious one-woman show

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• noun a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
  tyranny; absolutism; dictatorship; monocracy; Stalinism; shogunate; authoritarianism; despotism; Caesarism; totalitarianism.
  

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• noun an employee who sacrifices his own individuality for the good of an organization
  

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• noun someone who enjoys outdoor activities
  outdoor man.
  

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• noun the target company defends itself by threatening to take over its acquirer
  

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• noun a member of a political party who follows strictly the party line
  party liner.
  

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• a partisan. Swift.

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• noun fossils found near Beijing, China; they were lost during World War II
  

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• noun a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax
  Piltdown hoax.
  

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• noun the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver
  pivot.
  

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• noun someone who is the forefront of an important enterprise
  
  • he is the president's point man on economic issues
• noun a soldier who goes ahead of a patrol
  

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• noun any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers
  butterfly flower; schizanthus.
  

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• noun twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
  horse grain; horse gram; Dolichos biflorus; Macrotyloma uniflorum.
  

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• (Bot.), garlic; so called because it was thought to be an antidote to animal poison. Eng Dr. Prior.

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• noun herb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weather
  Anagallis arvensis; red pimpernel; scarlet pimpernel.
  

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• (Bot.), the red-flowered pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), which opens its blossoms only in fair weather.

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• noun large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
  man-of-war; jellyfish.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any species of the genus Physalia. See Physalia.
• . (Zoöl.) See Physalia.

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• noun someone employed to arrange publicity (for a firm or a public figure)
  press agent; public relations man; PR man.
  

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• noun someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel
  preacher; sermonizer; sermoniser.
  

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• noun member of the stage crew in charge of properties
  propman; property master.
  

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• or prop man , one who has charge of the "properties" of a theater.

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• noun someone employed to arrange publicity (for a firm or a public figure)
  press agent; public relations man; PR man.
  

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• noun someone employed to arrange publicity (for a firm or a public figure)
  press agent; public relations man; PR man.
  

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Quar"ry-man noun

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1. A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.

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• noun an employee of a railroad
  railroader; trainman; railroad man; railwayman.
  

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• noun an employee of a railroad
  railroader; trainman; railroad man; railwayman.
  

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• one who reads much; hence, in the English universities, a close, industrious student.

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• noun (slang) offensive term for Native Americans
  Redskin; Injun.
  

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• one of the American Indians; so called from his color.

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Re*main"der-man noun

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1. (Law) One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3. Blackstone.

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• noun an exile living on money sent from home
  

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• noun a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
  generalist.
  
  • a statistician has to be something of a generalist
• noun a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
  

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• noun someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
  redact; rewriter; redactor; reviser.
  

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• noun a primitive hominid resembling Neanderthal man but living in Africa
  Homo rhodesiensis.
  

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• noun a man who is wealthy
  rich man; man of means.
  

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• noun the most helpful assistant
  man Friday; chief assistant.
  

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• noun someone who teaches a section of a large college course
  

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• a man who has risen from poverty or obscurity by means of his own talentss or energies.

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• noun a skilled worker whose job is to repair things
  maintenance man; repairman.
  

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• a male servant, or attendant; a manservant.

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• noun early man of late Pleistocene; skull resembles that of Neanderthal man but with smaller cranial capacity; found in Java
  

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• noun someone who leads a merry existence; especially a gambler on the outcome of sporting events
  
• noun someone who enjoys outdoor activities
  outdoor man.
  

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• one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.

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• noun a white man married to a North American Indian woman
  

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• noun United States baseball player (born in 1920)
  Stan Musial; Musial; Stanley Frank Musial.
  

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• noun an armed thief
  holdup man.
  

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• noun a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian
  second banana.
  

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• noun a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
  figurehead; nominal head; front; strawman; front man.
  
• noun a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
  strawman.
  
• noun an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
  scarer; bird-scarer; strawman; scarecrow.
  

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• noun a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
  double; stunt woman.
  
  • his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable

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• noun a special law-enforcement agent of the United States Treasury
  

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• adverb without exception
  
  • voted for unionization to a man

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• to have command of one's self; not to be subject to another.

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• (Naut.), to send men upon a yard, as for furling or reefing a sail.

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• (Naut.), to station men on the yards as a salute or mark of respect.

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• a tobacconist. R.

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Trench"er-man noun

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1. A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer. Shak.
2. A cook. Obs.

   The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. Sir P. Sidney.

3. A table companion; a trencher mate. Thackeray.

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• noun fossil remains found in Java; formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus
  Java man.
  

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• a man who collects tolls at a turnpike.

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• noun a saw with handles at both ends; intended for use by two people
  lumberman's saw; whipsaw; two-handed saw.
  

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• noun a tent designed for occupancy by two persons
  

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• noun a man who has never been married
  bachelor.
  

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• noun a baseball player valued for the ability to play at several positions
  
• noun a workman expected to serve in any capacity when called on
  

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• noun member of a vigilance committee
  vigilante.
  

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• noun a man who is wealthy
  rich man; man of means.
  

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• noun a man who is White
  

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• noun the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects
  

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• noun common European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed
  whiteman's foot; Plantago major; cart-track plant; common plantain; broad-leaved plantain.
  

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• noun a person who is not socialized
  feral man.
  

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• noun a wise and trusted guide and advisor
  mentor.
  

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• noun an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
  workman; workingman; working person.
  

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• noun the worship of human beings
  anthropolatry.
  

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• noun offensive term for an Asian man
  

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• noun a person of unquestioning obedience
  flunky; stooge; flunkey.
  

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• noun a teenager or a young adult male
  young buck.
  
• noun a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman
  swain; beau; fellow; boyfriend.
  
  • if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked

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