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Peter Pan

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Peter Pan
Noun
a youthful or immature man [after the main character in Peter Pan, a play]
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Noun1.Peter PanPeter Pan - a boyish or immature man; after the boy in Barrie's play who never grows up
adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
2.Peter Pan - the main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie; a boy who won't grow up


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If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, "Why, of course, I did, child," and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, "What a foolish question to ask, certainly he did.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies.
The Adventures of Peter Pan by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
If so, Peter Pan sees them when he is sailing across the lake in the Thrush's Nest.
The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
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