Wiktionary
interj. (context soccer basketball English) An outcry warning a teammate of an approaching opponent, usually from the rear.
Usage examples of "man on".
He walked quickly back to the big cab, climbed inside, and drove south -- a man on the run.
With the discovery of my empty gun, I felt like a man on the top of a volcano in lively eruption.
There was supposed to be a hired man on the place, but he had never showed up that day, and my dad fired him not a month later.
The man on my doorstep flinched away from the light as I opened the front door.
The man on the screen began to say something else, but Summervale raised a hand.
A dozen cantered by his patch of darkness, then a coach, rumbling and bouncing, and a solitary giant of a man on a black stallion, and finally another twenty or so horsemen, riding on inky shadows in the moonlight.
He was the only man on Stormdancer not trying to grow a floorbrush mustache like Gathmor’.
Like a man on the verge of a critical illness or a hazardous journey, I cleared up my correspondence, paid bills until I had writer's cramp from signing checks, read over my will, and paid up my life insurance, made to the benefit of an elderly sister of my mother's.
She changed her grip, stepped to the left, and threw the dagger with all her strength at the man on that side.
But the bars which separated him from the corridor, and from the morose old man on his left, and from the big, moronic looking teenager on his right--the bars were four inches thick and eight inches apart, padded in silicone plastics.
But the bars which separated him from the corridor, and from the morose old man on his left, and from the big, moronic-looking teenager on his right--the bars were four inches thick and eight inches apart, padded in silicone plastics.