Usually means: Socially active, fashionable urban male.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word man about town:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. man about town: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. man-about-town: Merriam-Webster
  3. man about town: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. man about town: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. man about town: Collins English Dictionary
  6. man-about-town: Vocabulary.com
  7. man-about-town: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. man-about-town, man about town: Wiktionary
  9. man about town: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. man about town: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. man-about-town, man about town: Dictionary.com
  12. Man About Town (album), Man About Town (magazine), Man About Town: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. man-about-town: Rhymezone
  14. man-about-town: FreeDictionary.org
  15. man-about-town: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. man-about-town, man about town: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. man-about-town: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. man about town: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. man about town: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (man about town)

▸ noun:  A worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places.

Similar:
playboy, Corinthian, gentleman about town, man of the world, bon vivant, bon-vivant, socialite, clubman, townie, man's man, more...

Opposite:
homebody, introvert, recluse

Adjectives:
schoolboy, man, playboy, boss, girlie, gamine, number two, bully, siren, showmanly, buddy

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Similar:
playboy, Corinthian, gentleman about town, man of the world, bon vivant, bon-vivant, socialite, clubman, townie, man's man, more...

Opposite:
homebody, introvert, recluse

Adjectives:
schoolboy, man, playboy, boss, girlie, gamine, number two, bully, siren, showmanly, buddy



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