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Dapper Dan en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (informal) A man who dresses and is groomed in a fancy, elegant, or fastidious manner.
   • “We call him Dapper Dan,” the chief pointed to a well-dressed man wearing a white shirt, tie, and a three-piece pin-striped suit. 2010, Charles F. Lee, The Adventures of Ickle, Packy, Pickle and Gooch, →ISBN, page 49:
   • Timothy C. Kelly cultivated a taste for the chivalry and silk handkerchiefs of his parents' generation. "He was a man who enjoyed the finer things in life," said his wife, Julie. ". . . He was a Dapper Dan." 2001 December 18, “Timothy C. Kelly: A Dapper Throwback”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Dec 2012:
   • [T]hey sat together in the front row, together with a very elderly fellow of the kind Carmine always called a “Dapper Dan”—a bit like the 1930s movie star, William Powell, even including the little mustache. 2011, Colleen McCullough, Naked Cruelty, →ISBN:

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slick Rick · doubting Thomas · Gentleman Jim · dismal Dora · sneaky Pete · nervous Nellie · gloomy Gus · Alibi Ike · fancy Dan · dreamy Daniel · good-time Charlie · lazy Lawrence · nervous Purvis · plain Jane

Translations (1)

bg франт (A man who dresses in a fancy, elegant, or fastidious manner.)