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- noun Plural form of
manchild .
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Examples
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Is this an indication that board game enthusiasts are emotionally crippled manchildren as opposed to an indication that people actually desire different qualities from games and literature?
Kicking The Dog SVGL 2009
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And Star Wars will survive, despite the disappointed manchildren.
Star Wars Must Die 2008
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And Star Wars will survive, despite the disappointed manchildren.
Star Wars Must Die 2008
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If you like Southern fiction -- and who doesn't -- you're always on the lookout for the next Faulkner, someone who can take you, again, to that world of idiot manchildren and spinsters having sex with skeletons.
Chris Kelly: Why Do Homosexuals Want to Serve in the Military? For the Sexing, Of Course 2009
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So, this Chronicle of Higher Ed piece by Michael Kimmel on “guy lit” started off as a promising deflation of that curious genre of fiction — think High Fidelity or Indecision — populated by 30-something slacker manchildren who have bundles of witticisms where a personality is supposed to be.
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What a collection of manchildren we have reading comics today when they can't take someone getting shot in the head or an implied rape in their reading.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #142 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Its Sci-Fi for adults and I don't mean for manchildren like well, Dr Who to name another popular contemporary SF show which I like, too.
BSG Podcasts: My New Year's Resolution ... Rogers 2007
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Everything in movies now is all beta males and manchildren, so the audiences have been starved for alpha males.
I feel dirty … 2007 edition! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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I think it might be better to feed our manchildren even more soy so that the nation's agribusiness, auto, and oil corporations can provide even bigger dividends to their stockholders.
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If we stop feeding soy products to our manchildren, who's going to buy tomorrow's Hummers, Dodge Rams, and Ford Excursions?
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