everydude

English

Etymology

From every +‎ dude, modelled on everyman.

Noun

everydude (plural everydudes)

1. (colloquial) A typical dude; an unremarkable laid-back man.
   • 1995, Jess Walter, Every knee shall bow:

     So, alongside a fair hatred of racism, Nevin grew up believing that, often, the establishment is just dead wrong. He was everydude in the late 1960s and early 1970s — a shaggy-haired, liberal, itinerant college student […]

   • 2008 March 30, Dave Itzkoff, “Tackling Directing and George Clooney”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But for John Krasinski, the actor who plays Jim, the affable everydude of “The Office,” the news wasn’t all bad.

   • 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club‎^[2]:

     Reynolds’ character, called simply Guy, is an unyieldingly chipper everydude who greets each morning with a smile.