other man

noun

: a man who is having an affair with another man's spouse

—usually used with the

E.G. Marshall plays a man who, believing himself cuckolded, plants a bomb in his own basement to destroy the Mrs. and the other man.

—Mike Flaherty

Examples of other man in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Two men once picked up Chaudhary and a friend and drove them against their will to a hostel an hour away, where more than a dozen other men were waiting. — ABC News, 23 July 2026

The same is true with Ramy veteran Steve Way, as a character with muscular dystrophy whose interactions with Catherine are very different from her interactions with other men. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026

Wuornos was arrested in January 1991 in Volusia County, Florida; in 1992, she was convicted of the murder of Richard Mallory and over the course of the year pleaded no contest to the murders of five other men and received six death sentences. — Peter White, Deadline, 22 July 2026

Police said two other men wounded in the shooting were later released from the hospital. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1886, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for other man

• businessman
• canavan
• caravan
• constantan
• dragoman
• fisherman
• handyman
• harmattan
• journeyman
• marianne
• middleman
• minivan