Meaning of iron man | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A self-acting spinning mule used in cotton manufacture.
2. Someone who performs a very complex, complicated, or strenuous task without assistance.
   figuratively
3. A dollar.
   US, dated, plural-normally, slang

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Examples

“You don't have⟳ to be an iron⟳ man and do all the work⟳ yourself: there are people here who can help⟳ you.”

“This time it was thirty-five grand, a whole damn marching battalion of iron⟳ men, […]”

“Somebody had sense⟳ enough to tell⟳ Elmer to hold⟳ out until the bids were all in, which accounts for his getting four thousand big iron⟳ men for his first season's work⟳, instead of fifteen hundred, like⟳ the rest⟳ of the bush heavers.”

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