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kept man en · NOUN

Etymology

From kept + man.

Meanings

1. A man who lives off his lover.
   • A strapping Italian hunk, he becomes the rich actress's kept man, uses her money to start himself in business. 1984 November 19, Richard Zoglin, “Video: Small World”, in Time:
   • The kept man—in and out of marriage—is quite a feature of life in our chaste little village. a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, chapter 17, in Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:

Forms

Coordinates

kept woman

Synonyms

kept boy · ponce

Translations (1)

pl utrzymanek (man supported financially by a lover)