spaceman
Americannoun
Gender
See -man.
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Origin of spaceman
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But I love him best when he’s silly and sensitive and Tim Allen really shines at providing the spaceman with an emotional depth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Each member adopts a specific stage identity: Simmons the demon; Stanley the starchild; Frehley the spaceman, and Criss the catman.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
UK spaceman Tim Peake is stepping down permanently from his role as a European astronaut.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2023
He resurfaced in pop culture in 2019 when Tom Hanks signed on to produce and star in a forthcoming movie about the spaceman.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
“What’s up with that spaceman outfit? You in the Black Eyed Peas now?”
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
She tells the fascinating story of how spacemen and technology inspired the creation of one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time, Teletubbies.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2022
But that approach was abandoned after they found themselves essentially building another Space Shuttle Discovery, and they threw out modernized designs for the spacemen, too.
From The Verge ● Jun. 18, 2022
The spacemen earned thousands of dollars for sometimes-staged events about their lives.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
The two spacemen were viewed with a mixture of passing curiosity and snarling resentment.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2021
He’d show up at my house or I’d go up to his and we’d be off to the mountains, playing cowboys or spacemen or pirates or whatever we could think up.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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