| lady's man |
see "ladies' man." |
| man about town |
a man whose worldly social life and knowledge of fashionable places keep him in public notice. |
| man Friday |
a male employee, aide, or assistant who faithfully attends to a variety of tasks. |
| man in the street |
a common, ordinary man; average citizen (usu. understood to include women). |
| man of God |
a priest, minister, or rabbi; clergyman. [2 definitions] |
| man of letters |
a man whose occupation or avocation is in literature, esp. as a writer, critic, scholar, or translator. |
| man of the world |
a man of experience and sophistication. |
| man-at-arms |
a soldier, esp. a heavily armed horseman of the medieval period. |
| man-hour |
a unit of industrial time or production equal to the amount of work one person can or does produce in one hour. |
| man-made |
made or formed by human beings; not natural. |
| man-o'-war bird |
see "frigate bird." |
| man-of-war |
an old word for warship. [2 definitions] |
| man-sized |
(informal) large. |
| medicine man |
a person who heals, or is thought to have spiritual powers, among North American Indians and some other peoples. |
| odd man out |
any outsider; one who has been excluded. [2 definitions] |
| old man |
(informal) one's father. [3 definitions] |
| party man |
one who is loyal to a political party or who follows the party line. |
| Peking man |
a type of early human whose fossil remains were found near Beijing, China. |
| Piltdown man |
a skull, found in 1911, believed to represent a species of prehistoric human but shown in 1953 to be a forged composite of modern human and ape bone fragments. |
| plainclothesman |
a policeman, esp. a detective who wears civilian clothes while on duty. |