made man en · NOUN
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Meanings
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A man whose fortune has been made.
I had no money, but if I could only find workable country, I might stock it with borrowed capital, and consider myself a made man.
1872, Samuel Butler, chapter 1, in Erewhon […] , London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC:What with the shock of him going in this awful rash way, and thinking myself a made man by that chance, I was nearly off my chump for a week.
1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter VI, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC:
- (slang) A person who has been through an induction ceremony into the Mafia or similar organisation.
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| made men | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (4)
pl osoba zwerbowana (man whose fortune has been made) · pl mafios (person of the Mafia) · de gemachter Mann (man whose fortune has been made) · pl mafioso (person of the Mafia)