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noun

a male assistant to an administrator or executive; right-hand man.

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Origin of man Friday

1885–90; after Friday, the devoted servant in Robinson Crusoe

Words nearby man Friday

maneuver, maneuverable, Man fern, man flu, Manfredini, man Friday, manful, manga, mangabey, Mangalore, Mangaluru

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How to use man Friday in a sentence

In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
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That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.
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It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
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But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.
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France 24's coverage of two developing hostage situations in Paris on Friday.
LIVE Coverage of the Paris Terror Attacks||January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various

British Dictionary definitions for man Friday

man Friday

noun

a loyal male servant or assistant

Word Origin for man Friday

after the native in Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe (1719)

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