delta male

Noun

delta male (plural delta males)

1. A male without an authoritative position or role in social or group hierarchy; a male commoner.
   • The delta male is a highly caring and sensitive man. They are the ones who like to ask you first before going on a head with something, they like your input in everything that goes on in the relationship.2010, John G., Small Talk: It’s Only My Opinion, page 89
   • Scott, who runs the Classic and promotes me here, said I was wrong about the heckler being the alpha male of the sport fan group. He said the alpha male would have money, cars, women and be silent. The heckler was a kind of delta male, the jester to the king alpha male. He would spend his life in...2010, Stewart Lee, How I Escaped My Certain Fate, page 323
2. A male animal that ranks fourth in the social hierarchy.
   • In one multi-male group, the alpha male assumed the aggressive role 45 % of the time, nine times more frequently than the delta male.1969, Clarence Ray Carpenter, H. O. Hofer, Proceedings: Behavior, page 33
   • There was some scrapping between Henry, the stolid Busner beta male, and David, the rather more excitable delta male, but it didn't amount to a fight and fusion quickly emerged2012, Will Self, Great Apes, page 433
3. An average man.