dude

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  1. noun Informal An Easterner or city person who vacations on a ranch in the West.
  2. noun Informal A man who is very fancy or sharp in dress and demeanor.
  3. noun Slang A man; a fellow.
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  • January 12th, 2009 at 11: 02 am the Heckler says: why the hell would anyone want mike conley? the dude is a joke. a bum. living off his pops hype and odens nutt sack. when was mike conley ever good? milwaukee dont need his ass. he sucks. the bucks need to find some minutes for joe alexander. homey can ball. —  Dime Magazine (www.dimemag.com) : Daily NBA News, NBA Trades, NBA Rumors, Basketball Videos, Sneakers
  • For all I know this dude could be her cousin, but apparently his name is Adam Scott and he's a PGA golfer - they're on vacation in Hawaii right now … and she's dating him. —  D*ana's Dirt
  • I used to love watching him and DK go at it. the dude might be alright, but that video was painfully lame. buried for not being able to skip to cool clips of him boarding since trying to skip around forces you to restart thus causing this to suck dick and rendering the clip utterly useless otherwise since really, who gives a *****? —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • I mean, the dude is all over the court, taking the ball from cats, getting in passing lanes, crashing the boards, drawing fouls, filling the lane on breaks. —  SLAM Online
  • This dude is the truth, now everybody's giving him guest spots —  xml's Blinklist.com
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  1. A slang term said to have originated in London, England. It first became known in general colloquial and newspaper use at the time of the so-called “esthetic” movement in dress and manners, in 1882—3. The term has no antecedent record, and is prob. merely one of the spontaneous products of popular slang. There is no known way, even in slang etymology, of “deriving” the term, in tho sense used, from duds (formerly sometimes spelled dudes: see dud), clothes, in the sense of 'fine clothes; and the connection, though apparently natural, is highly improbable.
 

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