MAWG

n. middle-aged white guy. Subjects: English, Acronym

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Citations: 1994 Michael Kelly Omaha World Herald (Nebraska) (Dec. 15) “His Campaign Was Seasoned” p. 25SF: I’m a middle-aged white guy, and I have nothing against middle-aged white guys. Some of my best friends and basketball buddies are MAWGs. 1998 Joel V. Mike Usenet: rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Jan. 4) “Night Of The Living Dead, by JimL2”: Black guy is the protagonist, and middle aged white guy is his antogonist. MAWG thinks they should barricade themselves in the basement. 2004 Scott K. Summers Newtopia Magazine (Mar. 26) “Middle Aged White Guy Has Political Catharsis”: Middle aged white guy’s (MAWG’s) political catharsis, continued: enraged by seeming police tolerance of intimidation, and fuming about corporate welfare (both as manifested in the entirely unlikely community of Harvard, IL) MAWG joins Illinois Green Party at the end of March, 2003. MAWG’s wholly unlikely “career move” morphs and mutates exactly one year later into an entirely unexpected dimension. 2006 Lola Ogunnaike New York Times (Oct. 22) “I’ll Take ‘Friendship’ for $100”: Ms. Ritterskamp supportively chalked his bad luck up to being a middle-aged white guy, or MAWG in game show parlance. “They’re desperate for minorities and women,” she said. (Michael Davis, the executive producer of “Millionaire,” said that without MAWG’s, “there would simply not be television game shows,” adding that “we’re looking to represent diversity in every sense of the word.”)

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This is my definition of a MAWG:
What age makes up a MAWG?
A MAWG of a middle-aged man, between 45 and 50, not always hip to what’s going on, who doesn’t look or feel hip due to what is happening to his physical appearance.
His stomach grows bigger due to
exercising little or none at all.
His hair falls out, strand by strand, due to frequent worry
over losing his inner youth to wasted possibilities and opportunities.
His face ages quick out of watching his inner youth back out, never to be restored again.
A MAWG feels, looks, becomes
middle-aged due to never thinking
about keeping his inner youth
alive through exercising and eating right, listening and watching for anything and everything hip, looking up to God
to help him look, feel and stay alive and youthful.
If a man doesn’t become a MAWG,
he must be hip to what he sees,
feels, tastes around him in music,
fashion, books, renewing his inner
youth by experiencing it the first
time.
He must keep his eyes and ears open, talk with anyone from a college student to a seasoned hipster, not feeling the effects
of MAWGdom.