bloke

noun5

1. •
   (UK, informal) a man, usually one who is just like most other men

   • Now I tell yer straight, I don't call it square for two big bloaks like us to tackle [i.e., steal from] one poor woman, and she a widder, and p'raps as 'ard up as us; it isn't English. — 1892
2. •
   (Commonwealth, Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
3. •
   (UK, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.

   • [H]e is a ‘blokes bloke’. A proper bloke, rather than something feminine or obviously dysfunctional. — 2004
4. •
   (informal) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

   • Try as I might, my broken French is not passing muster. […] I am also called a bloke, or, when the students are pissed at me, maudit bloke or damn bloke, or a tête carrée, which means square head. — 2020
5. •
   (UK, slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.

   • A second green chit and then you get your hat for a talk with the bloke. — 1989