Meaning of Marlboro Man | Babel Free

Definitions

An iconic male character depicted in cigarette advertisements as a rugged, handsome, physically active, and very masculine smoker; a real or fictional man whose appearance or behavior evokes this character.

Examples

“The weather would have⟳ discouraged a Marlboro man.”

“This one, if not a knight in shining armor, is at least a Marlboro man: a tall, lanky, self-taught lawyer of "broad shoulders," whose personality, "strong and silent," was the very "embodiment of what Texans liked to think⟳ of as 'Texan.'"”

“"What are you talking about? Five years of work⟳ and a hundred miles of electrified fence couldn't prepare⟳ the other island. And you think⟳ that, what? A couple dozen Marlboro men were going to make⟳ a difference here?"”

“A rugged landscape, two rugged men—stetsons, corduroy and denim—both gazing terse and tight-jawed at the Wyoming mountainscape. . . . This is Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, but it could have⟳ been called Secret Sex Lives of the Marlboro Men.”

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