man Friday
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of man Friday
1885–90; after Friday, the devoted servant in Robinson Crusoe
Example Sentences
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Police did not identify the man Friday night, saying they had yet to notify his next of kin.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2024
Officers located the suspect, a 27-year-old man, Friday evening and booked him into the King County Jail, according to Seattle Police.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2023
According to The Associated Press, the Alachua County Fire Rescue Department told The Gainesville Sun that a cassowary killed the man Friday on land near Gainesville, likely using its exceedingly long claws.
From Fox News • Apr. 13, 2019
In his decade at the center of Trump’s inner circle, Cohen styled himself as the tycoon’s pugnacious man Friday, an indefatigable loyalist who aped his boss’s husky-voiced bluster.
From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2019
His man Friday was with him, and together we sat and smoked in a silence that was almost suffocating.
From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Stoddard, Charles Warren
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