man date
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- noun
- /mæn deɪt/
- Informal
:
cita de hombres
- After a busy week, a man date at the golf course was just what they needed.
Examples
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Let's plan a man date this weekend!
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He always enjoys going on a man date with his best friend to watch sports.
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They planned a man date to try the new barbecue restaurant downtown.
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I have a man date with Jake tomorrow.
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We scheduled a man date to catch the latest action movie this weekend.
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After work, we're having a man date at the bar to watch the game.
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Jack and Ben planned a man date for some golf on Saturday afternoon.
How Social
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'man date' is compositionally built from 'man' (male) + 'date' (a meeting), so learners will likely infer it refers to some kind of meeting involving men. However, the idiomatic pragmatic nuance—that it is an informal, typically non‑romantic outing among male friends and a playful/slang coinage—is not fully predictable from the constituents alone and may require exposure.
Etymology
Man date comes from putting man and date together as a joke. It imagines a 'date' meaning a planned outing between men, so that's why it means a planned social meeting for male friends.