man look
2
9.8
- noun
- Slang
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mirada de confusión
- The things they do to grown men, man, look me in my eyes.
Examples
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But man, I was sitting at home and and and then somebody sent me the link and I'm like, wow, man, look what we did.
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Oh, oh man, look, I struck like a nugget, a golden nugget.
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And I kept thinking it was like, man, look, when you had the chance.
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Self love is when you say to yourself man, look, I know you and that girl got a real connection.
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Self love is when you say to yourself man, look, I know you and that girl got a real connection.
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And so that is where you're saying, man, look like, let's make sure we honor those that set the legacy the right way.
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But Adam and Kerbin are like, man, look at that, I'm so pleased.
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I've watched a sweet, soft-spoken man look at his wife of 50+ years and ask her who she is.
Blog text (7) -
Pot bellies make a man look either oafish or like a gorilla.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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1.0
An expression on the face that shows a feeling
Antonyms
How Confused
- Slang
2
9.8
4
7.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is partly predictable from the constituents—'man' + 'look' would suggest a look by or associated with a man—so a learner could infer a general sense. However, the specific pragmatic/idiomatic nuance (a humorous, culturally conditioned expression of confusion or incomprehension tied to male behaviour) is not directly derivable from the words alone and requires sociolinguistic knowledge.
Etymology
Man look may come from the simple image of a blank, confused face people joke that men make when they cannot find or understand something. So a man look, a literal man look, means 'an expression of confusion or not knowing what to do'.