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cradle robber en · NOUN
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Meanings
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(derogatory, idiomatic) A person who marries or becomes romantically involved with someone who is much younger, or who employs or otherwise engages a young person for a purpose inappropriate for his or her age.
I was a 50-year-old woman; he was a 25-year-old man. . . . I was out of my pajamas and into a short skirt before you could say “cradle robber”.
2006 October 29, Francine Maroukian, “Modern Love: We Lived in the Present, Then the Future Arrived”, in New York Times:"And no mother," he shouted, "can call ME a ‘fortune-hunter’ and a ‘cradle-robber’ and think I'll make good by marrying her daughter!"
1914, Richard Harding Davis, The Man Who Could Not Lose:
Forms
Hyponyms
korephile · cougar · manther
Relateds
rob the cradle
Synonyms
cradle snatcher