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tyrone

nounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//taɪˈɹəʊn//
  • United Kingdom//taɪˈɹəʊni//
  • United Kingdom//taɪˈɹəʊniːz//
  • United States//taɪˈɹoʊn//
  • United States//taɪˈɹoʊni//
  • United States//taɪˈɹoʊniz//

A Chad-like Black man with a very high SMV who is successful with women and dating.

noun

  1. 1

    A Chad-like Black man with a very high SMV who is successful with women and dating.

Etymology

Decapitalization of Tyrone, from the prominence of the male given name Tyrone among African-Americans.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteSynonym of tyro (“a beginner, a novice”).

    Of the Society of them there are threeſcore and no more. But of thoſe punies, thoſe tyrones that are brought vp vnder thoſe threeſcore, there are no leſſe then a thouſand and fiue hundred, vvho haue certaine other Schooles in the tovvne farre remote from this Colledge, vvhich ſerueth for another Seminary to inſtruct their Nouices.

    [T]he chirurgeons have an useful practice, by which they put their apprentices and tyrones to work upon senseless dead bodies, to which, as they can do no good, so they certainly can do as little harm; while at the same time the tyro, or apprentice, gains experience, and becomes fit to whip off a leg or arm from a living subject, as cleanly as ye would slice an onion.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tirone, from Latin tīrō (“beginner, novice; young apprentice; (Roman military) recruit”): see further at tyro.

Forms

plural
tyrones
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