youthmen

Noun

youthman (plural youthmen or youthman)

1. (Jamaica, nonstandard) A young man; youth.
   • His first campaign in Italy made the name of Napoleon known to all Europe; and there the youthman ended, and the warrior and statesman began.1860, The Household Monthly - Volume 3, page 258
2. (Africa, West) A man who has reached the age of adulthood but has not attained an adult social status (living independently with a stable livelihood, marriage, and family).
   • Now when the youthman reach out pon the street some dangerous people the youthman meets. The conman a try to trick the youthman The informer what a wicked performer.1987, Levi Tafari, “Liverpool Experience”, in The Race Today Review
3. (Caribbean) A young musician from the ghetto who agitates for social change.
   • Rallies and marches were organized to awaken "social consciousness," and productivity poems, similar to those written in Eastern Europe in the early 1950s, carried the same message: So youthman, sister woman Co-operate, organize, unite, be wise Then we go cleanup this land!1986, Jiří Valenta, Herbert J. Ellison, Grenada and Soviet/Cuban policy

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