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man

1. n. one’s friend; a buddy, not necessarily male. (Also a term of address.) Look, man, take it easy!

2. exclam. Wow! (Usually Man!) Man, what a bundle!

3. and the man n. a drug seller or pusher. (Drugs.) The man won’t give you credit, you numskull!

4. and the man n. a police officer; the police; the establishment. You better check with the man before you get seen with me.

See:

• "I see," said the blind man
• (not) half the person/man/woman (one) used to be
• (the) man/woman of the hour
• a dirty old man
• A drowning man will clutch at a straw
• a family man
• a fool may give a wise man counsel
• a girl Friday
• a hatchet man
• a hit man
• a kept man
• a man after own heart
• a man for all seasons
• a man of few words
• a man of God
• a man of his word
• a man of letters
• a man of many parts
• a man of means
• a man of my kidney
• a man of straw
• a man of the cloth
• a man of the world
• a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
• a man/woman of the people
• a man/woman on a mission
• a man/woman with a mission
• a man-about-town
• a man-eater
• a man's got to do what a man's got to do
• a man's man
• a marked man
• a medallion man
• a New Man
• a one-man band
• a person after (one's) own
• a poor man's
• a Renaissance man
• a self-made man
• a yes man
• an iron man
• anyone in their right mind
• Are you a man or a mouse?
• as one
• as one man
• As you sow, so shall you reap
• backdoor man
• barrow man
• be (of) no use to man or beast
• be (one's) own man/woman/person
• be a fine figure of a (man or woman)
• be a fine figure of a man
• be a man
• be man enough
• be no good to man or beast
• be own man
• Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave
• big man on campus
• blind man's holiday
• boldly go where no man has gone before
• boss man
• butter-and-egg man
• Call no man happy till he dies
• candy man
• child is father of the man
• clothes don't make the man
• Clothes make the man
• company man
• con man
• confidence game
• dead man
• dead man walking
• Dead Man's Hand
• dead men's shoes
• dead soldier
• dimber damber upright man
• dirty joke
• dirty old man
• each and every one
• each man for himself
• Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
• early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise)
• Every man for himself
• Every man has his price
• Every man is the architect of his own fortune
• every man jack
• Every man to his taste
• every Tom, Dick, and Harry
• everyone
• face man
• family man
• feel like a new man/woman
• front man
• Fuller Brush man
• funny man
• fuzz
• fuzz man
• girl Friday
• give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
• G-man
• go to see a man about a dog
• God's gift to man
• Good men are scarce
• good-time man
• hatchet man
• have a man by the balls
• headache man
• he-man
• high man on the totem pole
• hired hand
• hit man
• in layman's terms
• In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
• iron man
• It's every man for himself
• kept man
• ladies' man
• lazy man's load
• leg man
• Let every man skin his own skunk
• like a man possessed
• little man in the boat
• low man on the ladder
• low man on the totem pole
• main man
• make a hit
• make a man of
• man
• man about town
• man after (one's) own heart
• man after my own heart
• man alive
• man and boy
• man and wife
• man boobs
• man bun
• Man cannot live by bread alone
• man cave
• man crush Monday
• Man does not live by bread alone
• man down
• man enough to
• man for all seasons
• man in the street
• man is a wolf to man
• man is known by the company he keeps
• man of few words
• man of God
• man of his word
• man of letters
• man of many parts
• man of means
• man of parts
• man of straw
• man of the cloth
• man of the world
• man on the make
• man plans and God laughs
• Man proposes, God disposes
• man the fort
• man up
• man-about-town
• man-eater
• manners maketh man
• man-of-war
• man's best friend
• man's home is his castle
• man's inhumanity to man
• man's man
• man-to-man
• marked man
• marked man, a
• May the best man win
• mean enough to steal a penny off a dead man's eyes
• medallion man
• Mr. Whiskers
• my man
• never send a boy to do a man's job
• new man
• nine tailors make a man
• No man can serve two masters
• no man is an island
• no man's land
• no use, it's
• nothing is so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse
• odd man out
• of few words, man of
• of the moment
• old man
• one heck of a (something or someone)
• one hell of a (something or someone)
• One man's loss is another man's gain
• One man's meat is another man's poison
• One man's trash is another man's treasure
• one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
• one-man band
• one-man show
• opportunity knocks at every man's door
• own man
• own person, be one's
• plumber’s smile
• point man
• poor man's
• Portuguese man-of-war
• red man
• Renaissance man
• repo man
• rich man's joke is always funny
• right-hand man
• see a man about a dog
• see a man about a horse
• self-made man
• So’s your old man!
• so's your old man
• step into dead men's shoes
• stick it to the man
• stick man
• straight man
• straw boss
• straw man
• strong-arm man
• take it like a man
• teach a man to fish
• the grand old man of
• the low man on the totem pole
• the man
• the man in the street
• the man of the moment
• the man on the Clapham omnibus
• the man on the street
• the odd man out
• the old man
• the sick man of (something or somewhere)
• the thinking man's crumpet
• time and tide tarry for no man
• Time and tide wait for no man
• T-man
• to a man
• way to a man's heart is through his stomach
• wheel man
• whiskers man
• white man
• white man’s disease
• working man’s smile
• yes man
• yes-man
• yesterday's man/woman
• You can't keep a good man down
• You got to do what you got to do
• You heard the man
• you should know a man seven years before you stir his fire
• You the man!
• You’re the man!
• young man
• your man