Definition of yes man

yes man

noun

a person who always agrees with superiors.
I left the company because it wasn't growing as fast as it could have. The higher-ups had a propensity for hiring yes men.
- See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
- See more words with the same meaning: dude, person of unspecified gender.
Last edited on Feb 23 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)':
corporate	Definitions include: the corporate headquarters of a business, or a person or group representing the corporate headquarters.
busy work	Definitions include: work (in a professional or educational setting) that is designed to keep a person busy, but to not permit that person to accomplish anything of note.
vulture capitalist	Definitions include: pejorative alteration of "venture capitalist".
TPS report	Definitions include: a fictional business report made popular by the film "Office Space" and used in the TV show "Lost."
take vertical	Definitions include: to take something vertical, i.e. to upper management.
make heads roll	Definitions include: to punish one or more people due to a mistake, usually in a workplace environment or business context.
MAFIAA, the	Definitions include: a pejorative term for both the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), likening them to the mafia.
corporate speak	Definitions include: speech commonly found in corporations, often filled with buzzwords, jargon, and "verbed" nouns.
rank-and-yank	Definitions include: a corporate performance review system in which employees are ranked in their performance, and the bottom-performing employees are terminated.
seed money	Definitions include: money used to start a business.
acqui-hire	Definitions include: the acquisition of one company by another, for the purpose of acquiring the employees more so than other aspects of the company's business.
ask	Definitions include: a request.
shark	Definitions include: To copy or plagiarize, commonly used by emcees to indicate a plagiarist.
hook up	Definitions include: a person who provides illegal drugs.
bread and butter	Definitions include: the main source of income for a business.
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Other terms relating to 'dude, person of unspecified gender':
cat	Definitions include: a female.
dawg	Definitions include: alternate spelling of dog.
pom	Definitions include: a British person.
you's	Definitions include: "you all."
son of a gun	Definitions include: friendly greeting, especially after not having seen someone in a long time.
shawty	Definitions include: alternate spelling of shorty.
rapper	Definitions include: a person who raps.
wuppie	Definitions include: young, semi-hip, web site professionals. Note: usually used in a derogatory manner.
nonsumer	Definitions include: a person who never (or rarely) buys goods to satisfy their desires.
meat in seats	Definitions include: attendees to an event.
TWILF	Definitions include: "Tweep I'd like to follow."
b	Definitions include: woman.
dude	Definitions include: a male.
Joe Schmoe	Definitions include: a stand-in name used to represent the everyman.
eyeballs	Definitions include: visitors to a website.
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Other terms relating to 'man':
3-legged man	Definitions include: a man with an extremely large penis.
and you know this, man	Definitions include: of course; definitely.
*ss man	Definitions include: "assistant manager".
back door man	Definitions include: the man who a cheating spouse sees on the side.
bald man in a boat	Definitions include: clitoris.
BMOC	Definitions include: acronym for "big man on campus".
dummy man	Definitions include: a person who sells fake drugs.
face man	Definitions include: a handsome man
*fck man**	Definitions include: fuck man.
get (one's) grown man on	Definitions include: to have sex
g-man	Definitions include: a US government agent, e.g. FBI agent.
hatchet man	Definitions include: a hired killer; "hit man".
humanure	Definitions include: human feces.
ladies man	Definitions include: a man who is successful with women.
ladies' man	Definitions include: a man popular with women.
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Other terms relating to 'yes':
all my yes	Definitions include: an emphatic yes.
all of my yes	Definitions include: an emphatic "yes".
*fck yeah**	Definitions include: See "fuck".
*fck yes**	Definitions include: See "fuck".
*hella fcking yeah**	Definitions include: To be agreeing with.
*hell fcking yeah**	Definitions include: "hell yeah" with the "fucking" infix intensifier.
*hell fck yeah**	Definitions include: A very excited yes.
hells to the yes	Definitions include: variant of "hell to the yes".
hells yes	Definitions include: see hells.
hell to the yes	Definitions include: an emphatic "yes".
hell yeah	Definitions include: a phrase indicating agreement or support.
hell yes	Definitions include: an emphatic "yes".
no yeah	Definitions include: statement of agreement used when someone corrects one of your prior statements, and their correction was unnecessary because you are aware of that, and either the other person misunderstood you or you didn't phrase it well.
so, yeah	Definitions include: what to say when you don't know what to say.
y	Definitions include: "why".
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