main ou, noun phrase

/ˈmeɪn əʊ/
Plurals:
main ous, main ou’s, main ouens/ˈmeɪn ˈəʊəns/.
Origin:
EnglishShow more English main chief + ou noun sense 1 a.
colloquial
main man.
1978 A. Akhalwaya in Rand Daily Mail 10 July 7Ask any of his ‘maats’, and they’ll tell you he is the ‘main ou’ or the ‘dada’...And our main ou, who is also a ‘chaar ou’ (Indian), has friends of all races.
1984 Frontline Feb. 27Apparently the main ou is a Cape ou, and the Cape ous are winning so far.
1987 S. Bagley in Cosmopolitan Dec. 168I can’t even take a lady out to dinner or walk down Church Street without almost being lynched because I’m a ‘main ou’ in leathers.
1990 Personality 16 July 14The kids catch on..fast, learning how to operate from the main ou’s long before they’re ten years old.
1993 Weekly Mail 8 Apr. 3She said: ‘We won’t get raided tonight because they’re showing the main ouens how the whores operate.’ Then..she added that she found one policeman’s bandy legs ‘so cute’.
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main man, noun phrasen. phr.maiza, nounn.
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