Alternative spelling of man about town (“worldly, social man”)

A worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places.

(chiefly US, in negative constructions) To know something, even if only a little, about. / (chiefly US, idiomatic) To know nothing, or almost nothing, about.

(UK) To be too frightening or upsetting to even contemplate.

(idiomatic, obsolete, nautical) Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning. / (idiomatic) Dead.

(informal, intransitive) To laugh uncontrollably.

plural of man-about-town

plural of man about town

Alternative form of man about town

By equal alternating periods of service or duty; by turns.