gigolo

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  1. noun A man who has a continuing sexual relationship with and receives financial support from a woman.
  2. noun A man who is hired as an escort or a dancing partner for a woman.

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  • Every hungry antique dealer a coward easily bullied into being gigolo, liar, thief, anything? —  Jade Woman - Jonathan Gash - Lovejoy 12
  • I'd taken my jewels out of my cloak and was wearing them, and I must have looked like a gigolo's dream of heaven. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,March2005
  • The gigolo, the German heiress, and a £6m revenge for her Nazi legacy —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Hong Kong - Police in Hong Kong on Monday were investigating a 12-year-old schoolboy who posted naked pictures of himself online and offered himself as a gigolo for women as old as —  News24
  • Hong Kong police are investigating a 12-year-old schoolboy who posted naked pictures of himself online and offered himself as a gigolo for women as old as 45. —  National Nine News
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  1. French, perhaps from gigolette, dancing girl, prostitute, from giguer, to dance, from gigue, fiddle, from Old French; see gigot.
 

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