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  • noun Plural form of he-man.

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Examples

  • Beating your chests, protesting just a little too loud, grunting to each other about what he-men you are because you carry a Leatherman.

    Tools and Pocketknives 2009

  • Beating your chests, protesting just a little too loud, grunting to each other about what he-men you are because you carry a Leatherman.

    Tools and Pocketknives 2009

  • The one-eyed have no depth perception, though André de Toth, director of one the first 3D movies, the 1953 House of Wax, was monocular, and he wasn't the only one-eyed director; Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray, Raoul Walsh and John Ford all sported eyepatches at one time or another – all of them pace the screamingly camp Johnny Guitar the sort of heavy-drinking he-men you don't often see coming out of film schools these days.

    Anne Billson – Cutter's Way and the great tradition of the film eyepatch 2011

  • The trend gets much worse at midseason, with a "what were they thinking" project called Work It, a shrill Bosom Buddies knockoff about two unemployed he-men who dress as women none too convincingly to get jobs as pharmaceutical reps.

    Critic's Notebook: The ABC Upfront 2011

  • Col. Bison is but one exemplar of these rugged he-men getting in touch with their inner Melissa.

    Think Progress » Purported doctor on Texas A&M message board claims he ‘laid off my first Obama voting employee.’ (Updated) 2010

  • The he-men at the Wildlife Service even shot 29 great blue herons, 820 cattle egrets and 115 white-faced ibises in 2009.

    Martha Rosenberg: Who Would Kill Blackbirds Intentionally? Martha Rosenberg 2012

  • The one-eyed have no depth perception, though André de Toth, director of one the first 3D movies, the 1953 House of Wax, was monocular, and he wasn't the only one-eyed director; Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray, Raoul Walsh and John Ford all sported eyepatches at one time or another – all of them pace the screamingly camp Johnny Guitar the sort of heavy-drinking he-men you don't often see coming out of film schools these days.

    Anne Billson – Cutter's Way and the great tradition of the film eyepatch 2011

  • They loved the idea of being he-men, and ran around flexing their skinny little arms for days.

    Pies & Prejudice Heather Vogel Frederick 2010

  • She made a concerted effort not to let her feelings about her job show, but she hated everything about Brownsville: her boss, her assignments, the condescending he-men she worked with serving warrants.

    Unspeakable Laura Griffin 2010

  • She made a concerted effort not to let her feelings about her job show, but she hated everything about Brownsville: her boss, her assignments, the condescending he-men she worked with serving warrants.

    Unspeakable Laura Griffin 2010

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