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ad-man

ad-man is the alternative spelling of adman.

Meaning of adman

Noun

adman (plural admen)

  1. A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements.
    • . . . Tad Allagash, a stripling adman and Manhattan party animal with inexhaustible supplies of Bolivian Marching Powder (coy for cocaine).1987 October 19, R. Z. Sheppard, “Yuppie Lit: Publicize or Perish”, in TIME, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2008

Forms of ad-man

pluralad-men

Questions about ad-man

What is ad-man the alternative spelling of?
Ad-man is the alternative spelling of adman.

Words near ad-man in the dictionary

  1. ad-libbed
  2. ad-libber
  3. ad-libbers
  4. ad-libbing
  5. ad-libs
  6. ad-man
  7. ad-men
  8. ad-seg
  9. ad.
  10. ad.'s
  11. Ada

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ad-man (page history and authors); adman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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