fellas

noun

variants also fellers
plural of fella
as in guys
an adult male human being these fellas are the hardest working bunch of players a manager could ever hope to have

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Recent Examples of fellas Mac and Chap’s mother (who happens to be Kurt Russell’s sister, hence the fellas’ Battered Bastards of Baseball film), was a hip-hop dance instructor in her day. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026 With all due respect to today's NASCAR, these fellas ain't touching those guys. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026 The fellas are also working on finishing up the upcoming Bone Thugs-N-Harmony album, but that one is proving to take a little more time than originally anticipated. — Kyle Eustice, VIBE.com, 17 July 2026 Thank you fellas … Jules, Fab, Albert, Nikolai and Johann for this invitation. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 29 June 2026 Down the way, a bunch of young fellas were hooting and hollering. — Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026 Hecht is a former walk-on who rose up the ranks in a K-State program known for churning out big, mean fellas. — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026 While some students and staff seemed to appreciate the bots, plenty more did not, taking it upon themselves to vandalize, harass, and knock the fellas over at every opportunity. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 2 Apr. 2026 Time to pay big bucks for the big fellas. — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fellas
  1. guys
  2. males
  3. gentlemen
  4. dudes
Noun
  • This is a season so overwhelmingly dull that it’s taken three different gay guys to recap it.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2 manga laid the groundwork for some of the genre's most enduring tropes (gender switching, horny old guys, tournaments), and this is the second anime adaptation, this time from Studio MAPPA.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of guys
Noun
  • National polling consistently shows that between 75-80% of voting Americans oppose biological males competing in women’s sports.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The suspects are described as Black males between the ages of 16 and 20 with a thin to medium build who were wearing all black clothing, ski masks and red gloves with black palms, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of males
Noun
  • Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the decidedly forgettable experience of falling for a phishing scam—or in this case, the simulation of one.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • This, ladies and gentlemen, is what’s known in the editing bay as foreshadowing.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of gentlemen
Noun
  • While Star Wars might be known for laser swords and space wizards, it's always been about weird little dudes doing even weirder things.
    — Hayes Madsen, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Even as Swift shines in the light of holy matrimony, there are still plenty of lame dudes out there for Taylor to crush across three-minute pop masterstrokes — and, God-willing, there always will be.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of dudes

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“Fellas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fellas. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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