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Bradley is an English masculine given name. It comes from a surname and a place name meaning "broad wood" or "broad clearing" in Old English.
It is also an Anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic name O’Brolachán (also O’Brallaghan) from County Tyrone in Ireland. The family moved and spread to counties Londonderry, Donegal and Cork.
Bradley (sometimes shortened to Brad) is the first name of several notable people:
Bradley is the surname of these and other notable people:
Dee Bradley Baker (born August 31, 1962) is an American voice actor. He is noted for his long-running-role as Klaus Heissler in American Dad! and other various characters including Squilliam Fancyson and Bubble Bass in the hit TV series SpongeBob SquarePants, Nightcrawler in X-Men: Legends and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. He is also best known for his voice-work on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Codename: Kids Next Door, Cow and Chicken, Phineas and Ferb, Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, Batman: Arkham City, the Ben 10 franchise, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Halo, Gears of War, Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. He is also known for his various roles, such as Elmer, Sanjay and Binky, in the popular Nickelodeon series, The Fairly OddParents
Baker was born in Bloomington, Indiana and grew up in Greeley, Colorado. He started performing at age 9 and steadily worked in musicals, operas, plays, and stand up until college. He is a graduate of Colorado College, located in Colorado Springs, where he studied Philosophy, Biology and German. He worked as a stage actor, stand-up comedian, and singer after college, which led him to Los Angeles where he established his career as a voice actor.
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.