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Tarzan

tar·zan

US/ˈtɑɹzæn/ fairly common

noun

1.

(sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs)

2.

a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Origin

Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction. In the fictional ape language of the books, "tarzan" means "white-skin"; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).

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