Dapper Dan meaning (informal): definition, quotations

Dapper Dan

noun

Informal A man who dresses and is groomed in a fancy, elegant, or fastidious manner.

Timothy C. Kelly cultivated a taste for the chivalry and silk handkerchiefs of his parents' generation. "He was a man who enjoyed the finer things in life," said his wife, Julie. ". . . He was a Dapper Dan."2001 December 18, “Timothy C. Kelly: A Dapper Throwback”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Dec 2012:
“We call him Dapper Dan,” the chief pointed to a well-dressed man wearing a white shirt, tie, and a three-piece pin-striped suit.2010, Charles F. Lee, The Adventures of Ickle, Packy, Pickle and Gooch, →ISBN, page 49:

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[T]hey sat together in the front row, together with a very elderly fellow of the kind Carmine always called a “Dapper Dan”—a bit like the 1930s movie star, William Powell, even including the little mustache.2011, Colleen McCullough, Naked Cruelty, →ISBN:

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