other man

noun

: a man with whom a married woman has an affair

—usually used with the

E.G. Marshall plays a man who, believing himself cuckolded, plants a bomb in his own basement to destroy the Mrs. and the other man.

—Mike Flaherty

Examples of other man in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Under state law, no media witnesses were allowed to view the execution of Joseph Corcoran, 49, who died by lethal injection for the 1997 killings of his brother and three other men, one of whom was the fiancé of Corcoran's sister. —Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024

Corcoran was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murders of his brother, James Corcoran, 30, his sister's fiancé Robert Scott Turner, 32, and two other men, Timothy Bricker, 30, and Douglas Stillwell, 30. —Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024

Throughout history, men tended to befriend other men, while women formed connections with other women. —Allie Volpe, Vox, 2 Dec. 2024

Two other men have also been arrested in connection with the shooting. —Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 19 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1886, in the meaning defined above