- (a) cradle-robber
- American, humorous
someone who has a romantic or sexual relationship with a much younger partner.
He's a cradle-robber. He married a 16 year-old and he's nearly 30!
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(a) cradle-robber
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cradle-robber — cradle .robber also cradle .snatcher BrE n someone who has a romantic relationship with someone who is much younger used to show disapproval →↑sugar daddy, toy boy ↑toy boy >cradle robcradle snatch BrE v [I] … Dictionary of contemporary English
cradle\ robber — • cradle robber • cradle robbing See: rob the cradle … Словарь американских идиом
cradle-robber — cradle ,robber noun count AMERICAN INFORMAL someone who has a sexual relationship with a much younger person ╾ cradle ,robbing noun uncount … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
cradle-robber — noun The judge died when he was seventy. He was a real cradle robber because he left a thirty year old widow. See: rob the cradle and cradle robbing … Словарь американских идиом
cradle robber — noun 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. And no mother, he shouted, can call ME a ‘fortune… … Wiktionary
cradle robber — [cradle robbing] See: ROB THE CRADLE … Dictionary of American idioms
cradle robber — [cradle robbing] See: ROB THE CRADLE … Dictionary of American idioms
cradle-robber — … Useful english dictionary
cradle\ robbing — • cradle robber • cradle robbing See: rob the cradle … Словарь американских идиом
cradle-snatcher — an older person marrying one much younger In everyday English, someone who steals a baby, not its bed. Usually of a man and sometimes as a verb. Also as cradle robber: They implied ungraciously that is the cradle snatching Londoner and… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
