lady's man

American  

noun

1. ladies' man.

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lady's man British  

noun

1. a variant spelling of ladies' man

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Etymology

Origin of lady's man

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

The running meta-gag at the heart of "Animal House" is that, although the members of Delta house are all so different — the lady’s man Otter, the failed romantic Boone, the politician Hoover, the human black hole Bluto Blutarsky — they are all united by a single philosophy that the basic purpose of human life is to indulge as frequently and as single-mindedly as possible in the most immediate gratification presently available.

From Salon

“Ted was a lady’s man, certainly,” he said.

From Seattle Times

“Bad Rabbi” is a succession of outlandish misadventures, a wild panorama populated by an astonishing array of characters: Blimp Levy, the 650-pound wrestler and lady’s man; Urke Nachlnik, the yeshiva student turned criminal kingpin turned Yiddish playwright; Naftali Herz Imber, the hard-drinking professional psychic who, among other things, wrote the words to the Zionist anthem “Hatikvah.”

From New York Times

Both bands are ready to call out immaturity — “Time to be a lady’s man/Time to knock out Peter Pan,” Creevy sings casually on “Lucid Dreams.”

From Los Angeles Times

“My grandfather said Felix was a lady’s man,” Thomas recounted in an interview.

From Washington Post