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BLOKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bloke mean?
• BLOKE (noun)
The noun BLOKE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BLOKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A boy or man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad
Context example:
he's a good bloke
Hypernyms ("bloke" is a kind of...):
male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bloke"):
dog (informal term for a man)
Context examples
I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff glass of grog, or rather more of the same, and with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore that they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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