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What is "man-to-man"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
man-to-man
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ man-to-man defense
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Blue said the team is exciting to watch, in part, because they play man-to-man defense.
▪ From what I could see Fairclough played as a form of sweeper with a man-to-man job in Wegerle.
▪ In 1959, at their man-to-man talks at Camp David, Eisenhower and Khrushchev admitted this to each other.
▪ It's always man-to-man stuff with them.
▪ So I strode up there to have this man-to-man chat with Nick.
Wiktionary
man-to-man

a. 1 direct, forthright(,) and honest 2 (context sports English) one-on-one adv. directly, forthrightly(,) and honestly

WordNet
man-to-man

  1. adj. forthright and honest; "had a man-to-man talk about the facts of life"

  2. being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player; "one-on-one defense" [syn: one-on-one]

  3. adv. directly; "we must talk man-to-man"

Usage examples of "man-to-man".

Young clerks like to use a zone coverage, whereas the oldtimers prefer a loose man-to-man, so you can wander and think, pick up an armload of items, frown, turn around, put them all back and start over again.

Perhaps making a true, man-to-man kill on an American plane would clean the slate, would erase the shame of what he'd done.

Besides, his man-to-man way of meting out punishment was preferable to the impersonal retribution of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.