Definitions for dude

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dude dude

Spelling: [dood, dyood]

IPA: /dud, dyud/

Dude is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in dude (ddeu).

Definitions for dude

noun

1. a man excessively concerned with his clothes, grooming, and manners.
2. Slang. a fellow; chap. (a general term of address used to a man, woman, or group).
3. a person reared in a large city.
4. Western U.S. an urban Easterner who vacations on a ranch.

Verb phrases

1. dude up, Informal. to dress in one's fanciest, best, or most stylish clothes; dress up:

interjection

1. (an expression of shock, approval, sympathy, or other strong feeling):

Origin of dude

An Americanism dating back to 1880-85; origin uncertain

Examples for dude

Thus a man who is noted for his dress is a "swell," a "dude," or a "sport."

The biggest misfire here, though, was the notion that anyone would believe that this dude looked at all like Prince Harry.

But Mrs. Crane insists that she has pledged her heart to one dude and one dude only.

Having a dude puncher on our range kind of stirred up my emulosity.

I allow you to—er—ornament my weir-pole, and 'tain't every dude I'd let do that.'

The NSFW video shows Silverman solving the gender pay gap by “becoming a dude” and getting a sex change.

For his part though, the dude with the inner grandma is pretty much just looking ahead.

Not only, in the rarest of cases, where there a female lead in a blockbuster action movie, but the damsel in distress was a dude.

Probably he was the kind of man that the name sounded like; a dude with pink cheeks.

"What, our own dude going to camp in the wilderness," cried Tom.