Meaning of delta male | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male without an authoritative position or role in social or group hierarchy; a male commoner.
2. A male animal that ranks fourth in the social hierarchy.
3. An average man.

Examples

“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.”

“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 the orbit of power, trailing it, circling it, but never achieving it.”

“The Delta male is in fact quite an attraction to certain women. Shyness in a man can be mistaken for the mystique in the Bravo male and can initiate an attraction, which can lead to more.”

“You're right that Camacho was just a delta male as you call them, but jerks like that are a dime a dozen. They work for somebody for peanuts, do anything, anything they're told, just like BB said.”

“In one multi-male group, the alpha male assumed the aggressive role 45 % of the time, nine times more frequently than the delta male.”

“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 emerged”

“One instance of ejaculation followed an intense grooming sequence between the alpha and delta male in troop II.”

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