made man
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- A man whose fortune has been made.
- 1872, Samuel Butler, chapter 1, in Erewhon […] [1], London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC:
- I had no money, but if I could only find workable country, I might stock it with borrowed capital, and consider myself a made man.
- 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter 6, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC:
- What with the shock of him going in this awful rash way, and thinking myself a made man by that chance, I was nearly off my chump for a week.
- (slang) A person who has been through an induction ceremony into the Mafia or similar organisation.
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- For quotations using this term, see Citations:made man.
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man whose fortune has been made
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person of the Mafia