(UK, law) Any hypothetical reasonable person used by the Courts in considering questions of reasonableness; an everyman.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, by extension) Any ordinary person; everyman.
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