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LADIES' MAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ladies' man mean?
• LADIES' MAN (noun)
The noun LADIES' MAN has 1 sense:
1. a man who takes advantage of women
Familiarity information: LADIES' MAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who takes advantage of women
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
ladies' man; lady killer; seducer
Hypernyms ("ladies' man" is a kind of...):
debauchee; libertine; rounder (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ladies' man"):
undoer (a seducer who ruins a woman)
Context examples
I can't help it, but I'm a ladies' man.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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