when a man manspreads, he sits on public transport with his legs spread wide in order to take up as much space as possible and prevent others from sitting next to him
I wish these guys on the metro would stopmanspreading - there is little enough space as it is.
They took to the New York Citysubways to see how peoplereact when a womanmanspreads.
This meaning is based on one submitted to the Open Dictionary from United Kingdom on 03/04/2015
Synonyms and related words
To sit or lie down
bed down
collapse
cross your legs
manspread
verb intransitive showing disapproval
US /ˈmænspred/
Word Forms
present tense
I/you/we/they
manspread
he/she/it
manspreads
present participle
manspreading
past tense
manspread
past participle
manspread
DEFINITIONS1
1
when a man manspreads, he sits on public transport with his legs spread wide in order to take up as much space as possible and prevent others from sitting next to him
I wish these guys on the metro would stopmanspreading - there is little enough space as it is.
They took to the New York Citysubways to see how peoplereact when a womanmanspreads.
This meaning is based on one submitted to the Open Dictionary from United Kingdom on 03/04/2015