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man
noun- used as a neutral term of address or a lexicalized hesitation phenomena UK, 1512
- He’s really diggin’ the scene, man! — William “Lord” Buckley, Nero, 1951
- Oh, you know, man. We got our kicks. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 96, 1952
- “Man” as a Form of Direct Address — American Speech, pp. 136–137, May 1961
- He even yelled at me at the table last night for saying “man.” — Anonymous, Go Ask Alice, p. 54, 1971
- Since “man” is commonly used as a neutral designation and since “man” is also used generically when referring to persons in authority, Ainsley Washington was made to feel like everyman on one hand and the living symbol of the police on the other. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 69, 1988
- a drug dealer US, 1942
- You better find somebody else cause I’m not your man no more. I’m not selling you. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 30, 1952
- When I first hit New Orleans, the main pusher–or “the Man,” as they say there–was a character called Yellow. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 75, 1953
- I’m waiting for my man / Twenty-six dollars in my hand. — Velvet Underground I’m Waiting for the Man, 1967
- — Current Slang, p. 47, Fall 1968
- Well I pawned my Smith and Wesson / And I went to meet my man / He hangs out down on Alvarado Street / By the Pioneer Chicken Stand. — Warren Zevon, Carmelita, 1976
- [T]he first thing we would do in the morning of the check delivery was to rush to the check cashing store, get the bread, grab a taxi and head to see our man and get straight. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 175, 1980
- a pimp US
- Sometimes me and my man Daddy drive up Park Avenue in his car. — Susan Hall, Ladies of the Night, p. 17, 1973
- They had the same man, Ronnie. — Frederique Delacoste, Sex Work, p. 30, 1987
- in a deck of playing cards, a king US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 55, 1988
▶ a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do; a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do
homespun philosophy in use as a catchphrase US, 1977
Jocular.- Joey, there comes a time when a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. You go ahead and catch the plane. I’ll catch the next one. — Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity, p. 71, 1998
- What’s that old bullshit saying ‘A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do’? Go for it. — Evelyn Coleman, What’s a Woman Gotta Do, p. 15, 1998
▶ a man’s not a camel
I am thirsty and require a drink AUSTRALIA- “Hey, Mac, man’s not a camel.” There was somebody at the window. “I’ll be there directly,” yelled Mac. — Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, p. 161, 1998
▶ the man
a police officer; an authority figure US, 1928- “You’re the man, aint’ you?” “Yeah, I’m the man.” — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 78, 1959
- You never know when the man will bust in. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 74, 1960
- My friends were now “downtown,” busy, as they put it, “fighting the man.” — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, p. 31, 1963
- I never let them stop laughing, hit them hard and fast with jokes on processed hair and outer space and marijuana and integration and the numbers racket and long white Cadillacs and The Man downtown[.] — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 101, 1964
- You just had to keep watching for the Man. He was always looking for cats who were down there jostling. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, pp. 160–161, 1965
- His adversaries in this continual quest are always the police: the “narcos.,” “The Man.” — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 15, 1966
- Step out of line / The Man comes and takes you away. — The Buffalo Sprinfield, For What It’s Worth, 1967
- I thought maybe you was the man. Them cats work on Sundays too. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 328, 1967
- For the younger kids, the “man” was school, and for the older ones, employers[.] — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 110, 1968
- BILLY: The Man–the Man is at the window. The man is at the window. The Man is at the window. GIRLS: Oh, come on. GEORGE: Oh, the Man is at the window. — Peter Fonda, Easy Rider, p. 140, 1969
- I got a job with the poverty program as a neighborhood worker and that’s really when I began to see where “the man” was at. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 75, 1969
- The Man has got himself a “temporary” restraining order against the printer of the Berkeley Tribe (Walter Press) from further printing of the names and addresses of local narcs. — The Berkeley Tribe, p. 4, 15–21 August 1969
- The Man be cooking up conspiracies again, but the sentences are gonna be a motherfucker–I ain’t jiving you. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 66, 1975
- — Dictionary of Cautionary Words and Phrases, 1989
- Kathy said, “I walked up to the door–it was open and I heard a voice inside say, ‘It’s the Man.’ I weigh a hundred and five, but that’s who I am, the Man.” — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 165, 1991
- LUCAS: Corey, the Man is everywhere. LUCAS: The interesting thing about you is you’ve got the Man right inside you. — Empire Records, 1995
- “Honey, I’ve seen enough to know someone who’s waiting for The Man.” — Curt Cannon, Die Hard, p. 20, 1953
- Posing in front of a marawanny bush is the connection–a parasite that thrives on the tragic despair of a seamy world; from which the underworld term, “If you see me with the man, cool it,” was derived. — Lenny Bruce, The Unpublished Lenny Bruce, p. 67, 1984
▶ yer only man
something that possesses a unique quality IRELAND- As if it does you any good to know things. You’re better off in the dark...It’s yer only man, the oul dark. — Eamonn Sweeney, Waiting for the Healer, p. 212, 1997
- A pint of plain is yer only man if you want a healthy heart. Research presented this week in the US suggests that a pint of stout a day could help reduce the risk of heart attack... — Irish Times, 13 November 2003
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