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It is a colloquial term used to refer to a man or a male friend. It is often considered informal and may not be appropriate in formal or professional writing. Example: "Hey fella, can you give me a hand with carrying these boxes?"
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For a brief period it attempted to head off accusations of sexism by featuring a semi-naked "Page 7 fella".
In Sunday league you can tell what a referee's going to be like from the moment they come into the car park and here comes this young lad, you know, a really skinny fella.
He was a smashing fella … a very nice fella and he'll be missed".
"He was such a nice fella.
It is particularly damaging for Gordon Brown: whatever his other failings, nobody has hitherto accused him of being a pocket-lining spiv (like that other fella Blair).
The miniature Mr Haughey's alleged reply on receiving bank drafts from Mr Dunne—"thanks a million, big fella"—has passed into Dublin folklore.But the tale is picking up pace again.
But Mr Rendell, a jocular fella, gamely played along on the need to "think big" on infrastructure during a time of unfathomably mammoth deficits.
The young fella came to watch our game with Wolves and I was honoured to be asked to go for a chat with him beforehand.
Of Henry he said: "He is just a good lad... genuinely a good fella.
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He is a successful entrepreneur and investor, partly owning or founding businesses such as the 40/40 Club, Rocawear, Roc-A-Fella Records and Roc Nation Sports.
Jay-Z and two friends founded their own company, Roc-A-Fella Records, to release his debut album, Reasonable Doubt (1996), which eventually sold more than a million copies in the United States.
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