bloke

chiefly British
as in guy
an adult male human being a couple of friendly blokes offered to show us the sights of London

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Recent Examples of bloke Who’s that Green Lantern-Goes-To-Business-School bloke down on the left. Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025 Starkey is justifiably proud of doing something more experimental with this assemblage of blokes, and he’s particularly formed a tight bond with Ryder. Chris Willman, Variety, 3 July 2025 The dinner was for Women in Cinema, not blokes, though David Taghioff, CEO of Library Pictures International, was invited. Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 16 May 2025 Tell your wife said information, 2) Say that that information is incorrect when confronted by others, 3) Not stand up for your wife when another bloke tells her to put on a muzzle, and 4) Not stand up for her, period! Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 21 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bloke
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloke
Noun
  • While you guys had staff inside laughing, pointing and even flicking off the crowd outside.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • What did you guys do to prepare to be on-screen journalists?
    David Wysong, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The powers that be explained to me that in the audiobook, there would be no easy way to identify the bees’ chapters, which were designated with italics in the printed version, unless the narrator’s voice changed from female to male.
    Elizabeth Bass Parman, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Kristin Andrews, a philosopher at York University, told me about gelada monkeys, which live in units consisting of one dominant male and about a dozen females.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Finally, the 0/3 domino went into Purple 0 and the last open tile and that, ladies and gentlemen, was that.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Radcliffe is Newland Archer, a handsome, progressive, and intelligent society gentleman who craves a deeper and more passionate connection to the world and someone in it.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Plenty of people, critics or otherwise, weighed in online, often piling on about their distaste for a perfectly adequate, somewhat imperfect, modestly ambitious thriller that’s mostly about a very intense dude trying to protect his adult children.
    David Bloom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But in college football’s hottest early-season matchup, the Carlsbad dude was California cool.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025

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“Bloke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloke. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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