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ladies' man

American  
Or lady's man

noun

  1. a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.

ladies' man British  

noun

  1. a man who is fond of, attentive to, and successful with women

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ladies' man Idioms  

  1. Also lady's man. A man who enjoys and attracts the company of women. For example, Because women seemed to seek him out at parties, Brian got the reputation for being quite a ladies' man. [Late 1700s]

Etymology

Origin of ladies' man

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

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"Leslie got it, and he was very good, he was the ladies' man, and I was more the hard man," the 91-year-old actor says.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

Alfred Hitchcock got to know him socially and Alfred Hitchcock knew the real man and knew that he was nothing like the suave ladies' man that he was on the screen or the clown.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2023

Pudgy and messy, Kissinger incongruously acquired a reputation as a ladies’ man in the staid Nixon administration.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023

Plays Lovers Rock ladies’ man Bammy, one of the most unsettling presences in the film.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2020

Frank, the fast talker, the ladies’ man, the arranger, studied me for a moment and then set the tray down on the table.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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