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someone who leads a merry existence; especially a gambler on the outcome of sporting events. Sporting man culture A performance at the Bowery Theatre in New York, 1856 Sporting man culture was an urban bachelor subculture in the mid-19th-century United States, focused on gambling, hedonism, and blood sports. Prior to the American Civil War, unmarried young men were drawn to growing cities in the Northeastern United States.

In the background skaters and a sledge. Number eleven from Figures à la mode, a series of twelve costume prints showing contemporary women's and men's fashion. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Sporting man one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.. The earliest known use of the noun sporting man is in the mid 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for sporting man is from 1742, in Genuine Account Six Malefactors.