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everydude en · NOUN

Etymology

From every + dude, modelled on everyman.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) A typical dude; an unremarkable laid-back man.
   • Reynolds’ character, called simply Guy, is an unyieldingly chipper everydude who greets each morning with a smile. 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:
   • But for John Krasinski, the actor who plays Jim, the affable everydude of “The Office,” the news wasn’t all bad. 2008 March 30, Dave Itzkoff, “Tackling Directing and George Clooney”, in New York Times:
   • So, alongside a fair hatred of racism, Nevin grew up believing that, often, the establishment is just dead wrong. He was everydude in the late 1960s and early 1970s — a shaggy-haired, liberal, itinerant college student […] 1995, Jess Walter, Every knee shall bow:

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