Usually means: Dominant male leading social group.
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  1. alpha male: Merriam-Webster
  2. alpha male: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alpha male: Collins English Dictionary
  4. alpha-male: Wordnik
  5. alpha male: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. alpha male: Wiktionary
  7. alpha male: Dictionary.com
  8. Alpha Male (film), Alpha male: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. alpha male: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  10. alpha male: Merriam-Webster

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alpha male: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alpha-male: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (alpha male)

noun:  (zoology, ethology) The dominant male in a group of animals.
noun:  (by extension) A dominant, assertive, protective, oftentimes successful, leadership-type man or male.
adjective:  Exhibiting the characteristics of a dominant male; dominant, assertive, and protective.

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