A fork of Rural Dictionary
A term describing a complex series of events in which one person ruins a planned social event for several friends by constructing a situation where the friends are waiting on him/her all night. A dudeman has five basic steps as outlined below....
1. Subject is initally indecisive and uncommital about suggested group activity. However the word "no" is never used.
2. The subject weakly agrees to participate in the suggested activity and sets up a situation where others are waiting on him/her.
3. The subject dissappears or doesn't answer the phone for several hours or just until it is too late for all involved to participate in said activity.
4. The subject calls and gives one of the following three excuses....1. Fell asleep, 2. Doing Laundry...3. Fighting with current love interest. Then reveals he is either "tired" or "not feeling well" and has decided to stay home.
5. All those who have been waiting on the subject for several hours become immediately enraged since they have been Dudemanned.
The actual term dudeman is a contraction of "dude" and "man" and was developed by one of the first known and most frequent dudemanners and repeatedly used during step four of his dudemans. ex: "Ahh...dude man, I think I'm just gonna stay in tonight."
We were supposed to go barhopping in the city last night, but Chris dudemanned and nobody ended up going anywhere.