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manspread

[ man-spred ]

verb (used without object)

Informal.
  1. (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people:

    guys who manspread on the subway.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·𲹻徱Բ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of manspread1

First recorded in 2010–15; man ( def ) + spread ( def )
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In one chapter, a hypermasculine man sits next to Sycamore on the bus and proceeds to aggressively manspread, his thighs spilling over into her seat.

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DeSantis has been referred to as a "Mini Trump," and sitting beside him in the Oval Office at the end of April, the governor looked as if he could be the president's large adult son: that same aging baseball player's build, the manspread engulfing their plush yellow chairs, both sets of hands appearing to play an invisible accordion as they spoke.

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In the front row, a group of boys competitively manspread and occasionally burst into overloud laughter at obscure jokes.

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“A lot of my patients will say: Oh, you want me to ‘manspread.’

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"We have to be elegant; we have to worry about not showing the shape of our bodies. The men, they manspread and no-one bats an eye," she says.

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