The Man

"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 passively, openly or via sabotage.

History

As a phrase meaning "the boss" it dates from at least 1918.

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.

The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in U.S. News and World Report, had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine Easyriders which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."

Adrian Neville

Benjamin Satterley (born 22 August 1986) is an English professional wrestler. He is currently signed to the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, where he performs under the ring name Neville. He previously wrestled in WWE's developmental territory NXT under the name Adrian Neville, and prior to that, competed on the independent scene under the ring name Pac. In NXT, he is a two-time NXT Tag Team Champion, with his first reign being one-half of the inaugural champions (with Oliver Grey, the other reign with Corey Graves), and he is also a one-time NXT Champion, with his 287-day reign currently the longest in the championship's history. He is also the first (and only) to have held both the NXT Championship and the NXT Tag Team Championship.

Satterley is noted for his high flying style, which has earned him the nickname "The Man That Gravity Forgot". He began his wrestling career in North East England with a small promotion, the Independent Wrestling Federation (IWF), and after establishing himself in the United Kingdom with promotions such as Real Quality Wrestling and One Pro Wrestling, he began to perform overseas, most notably for the Italy-based Nu Wrestling Evolution, the United States-based Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), Ring of Honor, Chikara, and the Japan-based Dragon Gate, where he has won the Open the Brave, Triangle and Twin Gate Championship in the latter promotion. He is a former PWG World Tag Team Champion, and winner of PWG's inaugural Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament (with Roderick Strong).

Lost

Lost may refer to:

Cinema and television

Literature

Music

Albums

Lost Breed

The Lost Breed Motorcycle Club is a motorcycle club in Nelson, New Zealand, formed in 1976. Since then they have been primarily the only gang in the town and have repelled attempts by other gangs (including the Highway 61 MC and the Fourth Reich an extremely violent Neo-nazi gang) to set up. The club has recently announced that they are strongly opposed to the drug "P" and domestic violence although Police (though open-minded) consider these claims to be dubious "wonder if they are also against the use of cannabis and the unrestricted sale of alcohol."

At the end of 2015, the last member of the Lost Breed defected to Hells Angels.

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