Florida Man in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to offbeat news headlines commonly phrased as Florida man [commits some unusual crime or other act].",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Florida Man"
      },
      "expansion": "Florida Man",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Florida, USA",
          "orig": "en:Florida, USA",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Personifications",
          "orig": "en:Personifications",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "Florida Woman"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A personification of the people responsible for outrageous crimes and occurrences in the US state of Florida."
      ],
      "id": "en-Florida_Man-en-name-74kABh8A",
      "links": [
        [
          "personification",
          "personification"
        ],
        [
          "outrageous",
          "outrageous"
        ],
        [
          "crime",
          "crime"
        ],
        [
          "occurrence",
          "occurrence"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "US"
        ],
        [
          "Florida",
          "Florida"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) A personification of the people responsible for outrageous crimes and occurrences in the US state of Florida."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Florida Man"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to offbeat news headlines commonly phrased as Florida man [commits some unusual crime or other act].",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Florida Man"
      },
      "expansion": "Florida Man",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English placeholder terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Florida, USA",
        "en:Personifications"
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "Florida Woman"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A personification of the people responsible for outrageous crimes and occurrences in the US state of Florida."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "personification",
          "personification"
        ],
        [
          "outrageous",
          "outrageous"
        ],
        [
          "crime",
          "crime"
        ],
        [
          "occurrence",
          "occurrence"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "US"
        ],
        [
          "Florida",
          "Florida"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) A personification of the people responsible for outrageous crimes and occurrences in the US state of Florida."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Florida Man"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"Florida Man" meaning in English

Proper name