alpha gent
n.— «“I like to think we’re producing a magazine for the…“ He pauses, and adopts the self-conscious twinkle of a marketing man with a buzz word to unleash: “Alpha Gent!”» —“Men’s Health – Arrival of the Fittest” by Polly Vernon Guardian (United Kingdom) Sept. 27, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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