verb
- past tense of mansplain; to explain something to a woman in a condescending way, often assuming she lacks knowledge or understanding because of her gender
Usage: informal; often considered offensive or pejorative
Examples
- He mansplained the rules of soccer to her, even though she had played competitively for years.
- She was frustrated when her colleague mansplained basic coding concepts during the meeting.
- The tech support representative mansplained how to restart a computer to the software engineer.
- He mansplained feminism to a women's studies professor.
- She called him out after he mansplained her own research to her.