Usually means: Average reasonable person in society.
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  1. the man on the Clapham omnibus, the man on the clapham omnibus: Merriam-Webster
  2. man on the Clapham omnibus: Wiktionary
  3. Man on the Clapham omnibus, The man on the Clapham Omnibus, The man on the Clapham omnibus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. Man on the Clapham omnibus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (man on the Clapham omnibus)

noun:  (UK, law) Any hypothetical reasonable person used by the Courts in considering questions of reasonableness; an everyman.
noun:  (UK, by extension) Any ordinary person; everyman.

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