Usually means: Socially active, fashionable urban male.
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  1. man-about-town: Merriam-Webster
  2. man-about-town: Vocabulary.com
  3. man-about-town: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. man-about-town: Wiktionary
  5. man-about-town: Dictionary.com
  6. man-about-town: Rhymezone
  7. man-about-town: FreeDictionary.org
  8. man-about-town: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. man-about-town: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. man-about-town: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Man-about-town)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of man about town (“worldly, social man”) [A worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places.]

Similar:
playboy, Corinthian, gentleman about town, business man, action man, lover-man, man-boy, wild-man, homme fatale, police man, more...

Opposite:
homebody, introvert, recluse

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Similar:
playboy, Corinthian, gentleman about town, business man, action man, lover-man, man-boy, wild-man, homme fatale, police man, more...

Opposite:
homebody, introvert, recluse



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