he-man
Americannoun
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he-men
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of he-man
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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The world has evolved, too, including the audience for his particular breed of postwar American he-man — he of the star-spangled boxing trunks and Sammy Hagar soundtrack.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
Motivated to impress the show’s producers, he landed a part in the musical’s he-man chorus by performing handsprings.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2020
Billy lives in a world where Superman and Batman fend off threats to humanity’s very existence, but in non-mythic Philadelphia, there’s not much for a newly empowered he-man to do.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2019
Expect a meat-heavy menu and he-man portions at the main restaurant, and a full-service spa that even offers canine massage.
From Time ● Sep. 25, 2017
The fund-raising campaign for the he-man cyclotron kicked off on January 7, 1940, when Warren Weaver arrived in Berkeley to visit with Lawrence and Sproul.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Sure, I had rolled my bespectacled eyes at the he-men flexing on my Instagram feed just the other day, but things were totally different now that I was a paragon of masculinity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
And so, once again, rugged he-men with sensational skills, character arcs and Michelangelo musculature set off on a mission deemed impossible.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2019
There are GOP he-men and big thinkers aplenty at the three-day event.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2015
To help both Seventeen readers and dramaturgical connoisseurs keep these he-men straight, we’ve prepared the diagram below.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2012
It’s a case of he-men in these parts.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
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