(n.) A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's been the league MVP for two years in a row, he's the reigning NBA finals MVP, he led Team USA to a gold medal in last summer's Olympics, he's on this year's All-Defense first team, oh and there's that Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year thing … OK, you get the idea, there's a lot of compelling evidence out there that suggests that the dude knows how to play basketball.
(2) @neopeo : Dude at work took 7 hours to get in to work this morning.
(3) If Kyrgios cares about his career – and sometimes he is so blase about his success, wealth and celebrity he professes to hate tennis – the hip young dude from Canberra who smirks when he should be smiling, who plainly is struggling with fame, needs to understand he is not the only clown in town.
(4) How does it stop?” And a dude in his early thirties who looks like a 6ft-3in brick wall says, “Everyone on my block did that.
(5) But it was in westerns that Peck's dour integrity showed itself best: unshaven and tough in Yellow Sky (1948); a dude learning to adapt to the west in The Big Country (1958); and obsessively after the men who raped and killed his wife in The Bravados (1958).
(6) He's 27 today, and shares his birthday with [frantic googling] Stuart Broad, Vernon Philander, the dude who played RoboCop, fellow football genius Kevin Nolan.
(7) He's a man of many names: The Walking Dude, The Ageless Stranger, He Who Walks Behind The Rows, The Man In Black, Walter O'Dim, The Dark Man.
(8) In other tweets she wrote: "I was on the balcony, dude with machine gun came up and told us to go in and locked it … we asked if they had a search warrant, they said the person who issues warrants is in building & doesn't need to issue one for himself.
(9) The comedian, who calls President Obama "dude" to his face and gets away with it , has promised nothing more than "fun" for the tens of thousands he hopes to draw to the National Mall in Washington DC.
(10) A lot of bad ‘dudes’ out there!” Taken at his infantile word, Trump literally makes no sense: having campaigned on a Muslim ban, Trump now believes he has taken all those bad dudes by surprise with the same ban.
(11) I know what you’re thinking; this Duterte dude sounds like a sophisticate on the world stage, but he isn’t the only person to have strayed near the edges of acceptable diplomatic language.
(12) "This is the first time we've been able to throw out an idea like, 'Dude, it'd be cool to have a gospel choir', and it wouldn't get shot down."
(13) 1 | The Dude ... from The Big Lebowski Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeff Bridges as the Dude.
(14) Maybe it’s because all these dudes were not the first choice of the women of their youths […] But they can make it in tinseltown and perpetuate the desperate delusion that they are powerful.” She says she has no real hope of a comeback.
(15) American sanctions against Rosneft, which have frozen the Russian firm out of US capital markets, had not had any impact on BP, Dudely said.
(16) As I was introduced, my husband heard a dude say to his mates, “Oh, look, a chick.
(17) In a break from filming, Pratt described his character as a "roguish space dude who's socially stunted and essentially still very much a child".
(18) It’s the infectious daftness of the whole thing; the claret-hurling ultraviolence; the inability of Jessica Lange to be anything other than an absolute dude even when spouting some truly preposterous nonsense, the reset system at the end of every season – meaning each is its own standalone tale with the cast in different roles.
(19) Italy are going out in the first round, a dude has just won a tennis match at Wimbledon 70-68 in the fifth set and New Zealand are just one kick of a football away from making it through to the last 16 of the World Cup.
(20) You wanted your own person, I know this because you virtually told me Gordon, so just chill out dude, we are not going anywhere.
Metrosexual
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) And so, from "stylish metrosexual" Warne we move seamlessly to Piers Morgan.
(2) But when I saw photos of Shane on his way to play golf looking like a model from a 50s catalogue, and when I saw that he'd been described by the Daily Mail as "a smartly dressed metrosexual" – a phrase as ominous from the Daily Mail as "brutally honest" or "plain speaking" – I knew my help was needed.
(3) He has pointed to the rise of the "metrosexual male", with David Beckham as its standard bearer, as evidence that masculinity is becoming unfashionable and "traditional male values, such as courage, risk-taking and singlemindedness can be seen as dysfunctional".
(4) Meanwhile, and a propos of nothing, a word on the The Last Taboo : Loaf around London or any major city in these metrosexual times and it won't be long before you see men doing things that would have outraged, or at least baffled, their forefathers.
(5) He is not just a Notting Hill metrosexual: he also hails from that home counties green Tory tradition that first gave us an Environment Department under the Heath government.
(6) He mended his own clothes and, like today's metrosexual, did his share of the housework.
(7) The metrosexual threw caution to the wind and started carrying his moisturiser round in his manbag; the lumbersexual now serves us up a hypermasculine aesthetic with an unashamedly ironic grin.
(8) Photograph: HBO Feilding: The detective work between Patrick and Kevin shows just how awkward and difficult it can be in this post-gay metrosexual world to determine if a guy is gay or straight.
(9) Perhaps you are expecting the standard American complaints against football: calling it futball , the frantic running, players crying (everyone knows there's no crying in baseball), the aggressive metrosexuality, the low scores, France's participation and, of course, games that simply end in ties.
(10) Heartthrobs are called heartthrobs for a reason Ryan Gosling’s best actor speech saw peak metrosexual pin-up this year: losing nominees Ryan Reynolds and Andrew Garfield shared a snog, while Gosling further confirmed his dreaminess at the podium.
(11) Though there have been many rumblings about the rise of men's style before – particularly during the 1990s, when the term metrosexual gained traction – current trends suggest something more substantial.
(12) ‘Mincing’ down the runway Facebook Twitter Pinterest Though Key said he enjoyed getting in touch with his “metrosexual side” at the time , he later admitted his cringeworthy catwalk display of rugby World Cup merchandise was “probably a bit stupid”.
(13) A " West Coast metrosexual ", said our state's own land commissioner. "
(14) Not about skinning kangaroos for elegant metrosexual accessories.
(15) "I think [David] Beckham's important in all of this, because he's so gay-friendly, he is metrosexual – if one of his boys was gay, it's no big deal.
(16) There's his gentleness, too: the new man, the metrosexual, the doting dad.
(17) Metrosexuality was refreshing because it came at a time when men were struggling to be identified solely by their ability to change a spare tyre, assemble flat-pack furniture or drink a pint of Guinness without the overwhelming urge to be sick in a bush.
(18) Johnston said: "Metrosexuality was more to do with an attitude.
(19) Instead, this so-called reaction to the unashamedly feminine metrosexual seems to me all about playing with gender stereotypes.