marlboro man
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An iconic male character depicted in cigarette advertisements as a rugged, handsome, physically active, and very masculine smoker; a real or fictional man whose appearance or behavior evokes this character.
noun
Alternative form of Marlboro Man.
Example Sentences
- "The weather would have discouraged a Marlboro man."
- "This one, if not a knight in shining armor, is at least a Marlboro man: a tall, lanky, self-taught lawyer of "broad shoulders," whose personality, "strong and silent," was the very "embodiment of what Texans liked to think of as 'Texan.'""
- ""What are you talking about? Five years of work and a hundred miles of electrified fence couldn't prepare the other island. And you think that, what? A couple dozen Marlboro men were going to make a difference here?""
- "A rugged landscape, two rugged men—stetsons, corduroy and denim—both gazing terse and tight-jawed at the Wyoming mountainscape. . . . This is Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, but it could have been called Secret Sex Lives of the Marlboro Men."