my man n.
1. an intimate; a very important person.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 9: For my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘“Hipster” Rev. Dict.’ Mad mag. Oct. 20: pal – my man. | |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 263: How yodoin man? Great Blackie. How’s mah man? | |
| Carlito’s Way 11: M’man Polito — went up to 113th Street to straighten a kid out. | |
| Muscle for the Wing 137: My man over there’ll chew your face off and shit it in your mommy’s roux. | |
| Source Oct. 84: We got Primo. We got Pete Rock. We got my man Lateef. | |
| Vatican Bloodbath 8: ‘Whoa,’ he said. ‘Judas here is my man.’. | |
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2. (UK black) any male individual irrespective of status or relationship.
| Hoops 17: ‘I’m going to play my man here some one-on-one’. | |
| Adventures 28: ‘I saw Duck from around the way going corner to corner, trying to pawn what he was holding [...] but they’d all brush him off [...] My man eventually gave up and chucked it out’. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Who They Was 8: Myman blatantly slammed the door on his own wife’s arm. |
In phrases
(orig. US black) a term of endearment and address between two men.
| Down Beat 11 Feb. 16-S: That was Frog — Ben Webster! My man! | |
| Howard Street 36: Say, my man, ain’t you Hip’s brother? | |
| Airtight Willie and Me 60: Young Blood, my man! | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 246: man, my See ace, n. 1. (form of address between black males that connotes positive feelings between the two). | |
| It Was An Accident 53: ‘My man!’ he goes. ‘My man!’ I goes. ‘My man!’ he goes. Go on for ever like this. | |
| Grits 262: ‘Jerry me man!’ ‘Colm. Ow was that base?’. | |
| Running the Books 6: Inmates exchange intrixcate handshakes and formal titles: OG, young G, boo, bro, baby boy, brutha, dude, cuz, dawg, P, G, daddy, pimpin’, nigga, man, thug thizzle, my boy, my man, homie. |