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Family Man

Definition: Family Man

Family Man

Noun

1. A man whose family is of major importance in his life.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definition: Family Man

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

FAMILY MAN. A thief or receiver of stolen goods. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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Specialty Definition: Family Man

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Family Man was an album released by Black Flag in 1984. It is unique in that one side features Rollins spoken-word tracks and the other side features instrumental tracks.

Tracks:
1. Family Man (Rollins) 1:17
2. Salt on a Slug (Rollins) 1:30
3. Hollywood Diary (Rollins) 0:32
4. Let Your Fingers Do the Walking (Rollins) 2:30
5. Shed Reading (Rattus Norvegicus) (Rollins) 1:23
6. No Deposit, No Return (Rollins) 0:40
7. Armageddon Man (Ginn/Rollins) 9:12
8. Long Lost Dog of It (Ginn/Roessler/Stevenson) 2:03
9. I Won't Stick Any of You Unless and Until I Can Stick All of You! (Ginn) 5:48
10. Account for What! (Ginn) 4:18
11. The Pups Are Doggin' It (Ginn/Roessler/Stevenson) 4:13

Personnel:
Henry Rollins - vocals
Greg Ginn - guitar
Kira Roessler - bass
Bill Stevenson - drums

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Family Man."

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Modern Usage: Family Man

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I can't believe I managed to find a nice, handsome family man. (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

He's not much to look at, but it's so hard to find a family man these days (Ice Age; writing credit: Michael Berg)

Movie/TV Titles

A Family Man (2002)

The Family Man (2000)

Return of the Family Man (1989)

Family Man (1988)

The Family Man (1979)

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Commercial Usage: Family Man

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Books

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Image Slideshow: Family Man

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Photo Album: Family Man

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And I've always wanted to be a good family man! / Gib Crockett, Washington Star. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expression: Family Man

Expression using "family man": a family man. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Family Man

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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222

family man soundtrack

20

family man movie

18

cast family man

11

family man nicholas cage

6

cage family man

5

family man tree x

5

family man one

4

cartoon family man

4

abc family man x

4

abc family man spider

4

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3

andrew family man peterson

2

family man one s

2

cage family man nicolas

2

family man picture

2

family man movie quote

2

family man script

2
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Modern Translation: Family Man

Language Translations for "family man"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

burrë me familje. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

семеен човек. (various references)

   

Czech

  

rodinný typ èlovìka. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

perheellinen mies (man with a family). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

איש משפח". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

családapa (father, paterfamilias), otthonülő ember. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

家族持ち (person with a family). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かぞくもち (person with a family). (various references)

   

Manx

  

fer thie (householder, housekeeper, landlord). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amilyfay anmay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

homem casado (benedict). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

familist, un om cu familie. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

семейный человек, отец семейства (paterfamilias, patersfamilias), домосед (couch potato, homebody, homester, stay at home, stay-at-home). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

porodičan čovek. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hombre familiar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

familjefar, hemkär man. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ชายที่รักครอบครัว. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

evli barklı adam, babası gibi olan erkek, aile babası (paterfamilias). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người hy sinh hết cho gia đình, người có gia đình người chỉ thích sống trong gia đình. (various references)

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Anagrams: Family Man

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-f-i-l-m-m-n-y"

-2 letters: mailman.

-3 letters: animal, family, flyman, infamy, lamina, layman, mainly, manila.

-4 letters: aliya, amain, amnia, anima, filmy, final, flamy, inlay, lamia, lanai, liana, liman, mafia, malmy, mania, manly, mayan, nyala.

-5 letters: alan, alfa, alif, alma, amia, amin, amyl, anal, anil, ayin, fail, fain, fila, film, flam, flan, flay, imam, immy, inly, lain, lama, lima, limn.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-f-i-l-m-m-n-y"
 

+2 letters: inflammably.

 

+3 letters: inflammatory.

 

+5 letters: inflammability, inflammatorily.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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