as in guy
an adult male human being these fellas are the hardest working bunch of players a manager could ever hope to have

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Recent Examples of fella This decade has arguably been the decade of the big Serbian fella. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025 So, fellas, wish me some good luck. Dory Jackson, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025 Storme Warren and his weekly Stories Behind The Songs show played host to the fellas at the Twelve Thirty Club on Broadway. Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 20 Mar. 2025 But the lonely fella was neither. Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fella
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Noun
  • This made sense: the Pope from Buenos Aires was, by nature, an urban guy.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Defending – defending these – this guy who is in El Salvador, who’s not an American citizen.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • One, the foreman, is a gentleman who was born in the Dominican Republic and came to NYC in 1996.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The foundation is named for its ingenious couturier-founder, a gentleman whose love for fashion history inspired him to collect the historic and modern work of the masters of haute couture.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The outlet reported that an 18-year-old male also sustained non-life-threatening injuries at the scene.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Together, the trio of males — Diego, E5 and a less productive E3 — joined 12 females in what became one of the most ambitious and sustained rewilding programs in history.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • His size doesn’t exactly blow you out of the water — not exactly the biggest dude at 6-foot-3 and 250 pounds — but the natural talent is special.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2025
  • That includes the dude competing with one arm and the other dude who when not falling repeatedly off a balance beam into the ocean was losing his grip 15 seconds into a challenge.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Fella.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fella. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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