other man

noun

: a man with whom a married woman has an affair
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 other men were arrested earlier this year for similar charges, one of whom had their case dropped. Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2024 Two other men who were working on the bridge survived. Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024 Federal gun charges reveal more details Last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri announced the arrests of three other men suspected to have purchased and illegally resold two of the firearms discovered at the shooting scene. Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024 The 40-year-old former AC Milan and Brazil striker faces nine years in prison after being convicted in Italy for gang raping a woman with five other men in 2013 after plying her with alcohol in a Milan nightclub. Mia Alberti, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024 The news comes a month after two other men — Dominic M. Miller of Kansas City and Lyndell Mays of Raytown — were charged with murder following the shooting. Patrick Smith, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2024 Two other men that Al-Halabi worked with at Gitmo were also arrested and charged: Captain James Yee, a Muslim chaplain and Al-Halabi’s friend, and a civilian translator on the base, Ahmed Mehalba. Tamara Audi, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024 The lieutenant said the initial investigation indicates the driver had been shot during an argument with two other men. Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024 Prosecutors had said she was killed by a gun belonging to one of the two other men who were previously charged with murder in the second degree in the shooting. Alex Sundby, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1886, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of other man was in 1886

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“Other man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other%20man. Accessed 2 May. 2024.

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