everydude

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noun

A typical dude; an unremarkable laid-back man.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nouneverydude (plural everydudes)

plural everydudes

  1. colloquialA typical dude; an unremarkable laid-back man.

    Reynolds’ character, called simply Guy, is an unyieldingly chipper everydude who greets each morning with a smile.

    2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club
    2 more examples

    So, alongside a fair hatred of racism, Nevin grew up believing that, often, the establishment is just dead wrong. He was everydude in the late 1960s and early 1970s — a shaggy-haired, liberal, itinerant college student […]

    1995, Jess Walter, Every knee shall bow

    But for John Krasinski, the actor who plays Jim, the affable everydude of “The Office,” the news wasn’t all bad.

    2008 March 30, Dave Itzkoff, “Tackling Directing and George Clooney”, in New York Times

Origin

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APA

everydude. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/everydude

MLA

“everydude.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/everydude. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “everydude,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/everydude.

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