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lightmans

lightmans noun: the day.

Noun

lightmans (uncountable)

  1. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The day.
    • And then to the Trin'de on the chutes, in the lightmans / The Bube & Ruffian cly the Harman beck & harmans.1612, Thomas Dekker, Lanthorne and Candle-light
    • Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman
    Antonyms:
    darkmans

Antonyms of lightmans

Origin of lightmans

From light + -mans.

Words formed from lightmans

Questions about lightmans

What does lightmans mean?
Lightmans means the day.
What part of speech is lightmans?
Lightmans is a noun.

Words near lightmans in the dictionary

  1. lightliest
  2. lightlike
  3. lightliness
  4. lightly
  5. lightman
  6. lightmans
  7. lightmap
  8. lightmapped
  9. lightmapping
  10. lightmaps
  11. lightmen

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