RIGHT-HAND MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does right-hand man mean? 

• RIGHT-HAND MAN (noun)
  The noun RIGHT-HAND MAN has 1 sense:

1. the most helpful assistant

  Familiarity information: RIGHT-HAND MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGHT-HAND MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The most helpful assistant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chief assistant; man Friday; right-hand man

Hypernyms ("right-hand man" is a kind of...):

assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)

 Context examples 

‘My ancestor, Sir Ralph Musgrave, was a prominent Cavalier and the right-hand man of Charles the Second in his wanderings,’ said my friend.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two of the warders were agents of Prendergast, and the second mate was his right-hand man.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)