Usually means: Loyal male assistant or servant.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word man Friday:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. man friday: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. man Friday: Merriam-Webster
  3. man Friday: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. man Friday: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. man Friday: Collins English Dictionary
  6. man Friday: Vocabulary.com
  7. Man Friday, man friday: Wordnik
  8. man friday, man Friday: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. man Friday: Wiktionary
  10. man Friday: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. man Friday: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Man Friday, man friday: Dictionary.com
  13. Man Friday (film), Man Friday: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. man friday: Rhymezone
  15. Man Friday: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. man friday: FreeDictionary.org
  17. man friday: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. man Friday: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. man Friday: A Word A Day
  2. man Friday: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See man_fridays as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (man Friday)

noun:  A trusted man whose job is to assist and organize someone else's day-to-day business or personal tasks; a personal assistant, a right-hand man; also, a trusted male companion.
noun:  (derogatory) An aborigine or native, especially one who inhabits an island.

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