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 The first round of voting is underway for the 2025 Grammy Awards and the fellas see a big year for Kendrick Lamar on the horizon and his Drake diss records. Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024 The young fella wasn’t appeased by merely being here. Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024 Created to serve as a safe space for the fellas to connect, recharge and elevate, leaders the arts, entertainment and fitness gathered to divulge about nuances of manhood. Jasmine Browley, Essence, 8 July 2024 How does a typical meditation session with the fellas play out? Devon Ivie, Vulture, 24 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for fella 
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Noun
  • This is a guy who's done everything Trump's asked him to do.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The reporters were seated on the main stage and understood nary a word of his speech, although the Wall Street Journal guy faked it by writing stuff down.
    Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Complete Bocuse by Paul Bocuse Amazon This is a recipe book by a gentleman, Paul Bocuse, who is hailed as the greatest French chef—or maybe the French people would say the greatest chef—of the twentieth century.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
  • And Kelce is as good as his word as his profile picture on X (formerly known as Twitter), has been updated to include a shot of the gentleman in question.
    Clare Fisher, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The first male sea otter arrived in the Elkhorn Slough, 35 miles north of Bixby Cove, in the late 1990s.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The right whales were identified as Catalog #4120, a 13-year-old female, and Catalog #5110, a 3-year-old male.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • And there’s almost no one in town who wouldn’t take that offering, except this scrawny dude.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Chris Martin is known for being a super-chill dude.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2024

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“Fella.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fella. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.

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