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Someone who comes from low origins and against all odds, breaks out of his inherited social position, climbs up the social ladder and creates a new identity for himself.
Benjamin Franklin was a self-made man, who rose from being a son of a candle-maker to the one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
by rockrapdude July 12, 2009
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Apr 22 Word of the Day
When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods
Bro since I got dirtpilled on Tuesday I have made sooo many worm friends and made them soo many little houses to get married in. Me? Lonely? No you’re the lonely one u lawn owning freak
by ecogoth December 30, 2020
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A trans man is the real self-made man because getting rich requires help from other people.
by blue_heart December 21, 2020
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