man v.
1. to work as a pimp.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Scornful Lady I i: Why, I’ll purse; if that raise me not, I’ll bet at bowling-alleys, or man whores: I would fain live by others. | |
| Lady’s Trial V i: A villanous poor banditti [...] Can man a quean, and cant, and pick a pocket, Pad for a cloak, or hat, in the dark. | |
| Nights Search I 23: Having man’d a whore, He gets a fee. | |
| ‘Of the Comforts of a Petticoat-Pensioner’ Miseries of Whoring 163: When rigg’d, he often Man’s her thro’ the Street, / And if a golden Chubb by chance they meet, / He takes his leave. |
2. to have sexual intercourse.
| Ram-Alley III i: Haue I not plac’d [...] My Cannons, Demi-cannons, Basilisks, Vpon her breach, and do I not stand, Ready with my Pike to make my entry, And are you come to man her? | |
| Hogan-Moganides 39: Women and Ships are of a Sex Cause neither Ships nor Women stand In use, unless they be well Man’d. | |
| Bickerstaff’s Burying Act I: I’faith, she’s a tite Vessel, and I’ll man her as titely, I warrant ye, my Lads. | |
| Young Coalman’s Courtship 3: How old am I, mither, do you think I could man a hissey yet? Fegs am a mind to try. | |
| Eng. Spy II 368: All well found, and ready for service, and only waiting to be well manned. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
‘to act like a ‘real man’; used trans., to render someone more ‘masculine’ (see cite 2021).
 | cited on www.pinterest.com 1 Nov. 🌐 You got to man up, take responsibility for your actions, and just win if you want to be a great football player. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | No Lights, No Sirens 17: He then took us [police recruits] on a trip to the medical examiner’s office [...] The purpose: to man all of us up before we actually saw atrocities in the street. | |
| Star Island (2011) 50: When Methane said his leg hurt too badly for him to continue, Cherry told him to man up. | |
| Corruption Officer [ebook] Ch. 54: Man up and quit your bitching! | |
| Cape News IOL (S.Afr.) 28 Jan. 🌐 It’s time to ‘man up’ as they say, and brace myself for re-entry. | |
| OG Dad 16: Better man up, Shlomo, cause a loveable four-limbed poop-grenade is about to blow up your life. | |
| Crongton Knights 8: ‘Man up! When are you gonna take your stance again?’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Adventures of the Honey Badger [ebook] I told him it would be OK and just man-up! | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Young Team 86: ‘Fuckin man up, ya wee turd, yi!’ . | |
| Razorblade Tears 129: He definitely thought he could ‘man up’ the gay out of Isiah. |