What does man-to-man mean?
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man-to-man
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Princeton's WordNet
man-to-manadjective
forthright and honest
"had a man-to-man talk about the facts of life"
one-on-one, man-to-manadverb
being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player
"one-on-one defense"
man-to-manadverb
directly
"we must talk man-to-man"
Wiktionary
man-to-manadverb
directly, forthrightly and honestly
man-to-manadjective
direct, forthright and honest
man-to-manadjective
one-on-one
ChatGPT
man-to-man
Man-to-man generally refers to a type of strategy or approach where each individual or participant is responsible for handling or dealing with a single counterpart, rather than working as a team or collective. This can be seen in contexts such as sports, where a man-to-man defense strategy involves each player defending a corresponding player of the opposite team. It can also refer to a direct, personal approach or interaction between two people.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of man-to-man in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of man-to-man in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of man-to-man in a Sentence
They sped us up a bit going from the press and zone and then under 15 on the clock, they were going to man to man, it was something we couldn’t figure out until later on.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
We were going to try to heave it like a Hail Mary type thing, they played me pretty much man-to-man and my guy didn’t get too much depth, so I was able to just run right by him. Then Tom put a great ball on me like he always does. It was a special moment. I don’t even know if I could have dreamed of it as a kid. It’s just so crazy.
They play hard and they are scrappy, they defend man-to-man and then they'll go zone. ... We have to trust one another and just focus on ourselves.
Dinesh, I got to tell you, man to man, that you got screwed.
Translations for man-to-man
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- d'homme à hommeFrench
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