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the hero of a series of jungle stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. a person of superior or superhuman physical strength, agility, and prowess. Show More
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Examples from the Web for tarzan Contemporary Examples of tarzan Or a modernized Tarzan might lead African miners on strike against unscrupulous multinationals.
I bought Tarzan comic books, and even had a few issues of ERB-dom, a mimeographed fanzine devoted to the works of Burroughs.
(Netflix, June 13) Tarzan (1999) Relive your child with the timeless Tarzan and his feisty friend Jane.
I fell passionately in love with Tarzan , and was most distressed when he married the wrong Jane.
He talks about attending the Dum-Dum convention in August, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Tarzan .
Historical Examples of tarzan Tarzan (of, if I remember rightly, the Apes) never won the double event.
Tarzan , you'll remember, did not learn to smoke and drink until the second book.
They were as happy about the whole mess as a pair of kids erecting a Tarzan dwelling in a tree.
And I would think that maybe in a way Etl was like Tarzan , being raised by apes.
After suggesting everything that seemed akin to this, she happened upon “Tarzan .”
British Dictionary definitions for tarzan (sometimes not capital) informal , often ironic a man with great physical strength, agility, and virility Show More
Word Origin for Tarzan C20: after the hero of a series of stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Word Origin and History for tarzan name of character in a series of novels by U.S. fiction writer Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), introduced 1914.
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A character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in the early twentieth century. Tarzan, born to aristocratic parents but orphaned in Africa , is raised by apes, who teach him to speak their language.
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Note The adventures of Tarzan have been chronicled in countless books, comic strips, animated cartoons, radio and television series, and motion pictures.
Note By extension, a “Tarzan” is a macho male, figuratively thumping his chest to get attention.
A character in popular novels by the twentieth-century American author Edgar Rice Burroughs. (See under “Mythology and Folklore.” )
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