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  • noun Alternative spelling of cradle robber.

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Examples

  • In the African-American community, crack was a dream-killer, a bank and drug proceeds builder, a cradle-robber, and prison-stocker, and a tomb-filler.

    Barry Michael Cooper: Mourning In America (The Crack of the Dawn of the Dead) Barry Michael Cooper 2011

  • In the African-American community, crack was a dream-killer, a bank and drug proceeds builder, a cradle-robber, and prison-stocker, and a tomb-filler.

    Barry Michael Cooper: Mourning In America (The Crack of the Dawn of the Dead) Barry Michael Cooper 2011

  • Mr. Lewis's polite but cavalier responses were red meat for Fleet Street, which cast him as a hillbilly cradle-robber.

    Killer Poised to Strike Again 2010

  • I am a cradle-robber, too… and proud of it, thank you!

    Birthday Love « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2009

  • But it's Neuwirth's sly, fearless turn as the cradle-robber that makes it a must-see.

    Movies: Boy Meets (Older) Girl 2007

  • Luckyscent refers to it as "fluffy" and "creamy", but correctly notes that spices keep it from getting into toothache territory and jasmine makes it more creditably less cradle-robber.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • Well, that puts sweet pea all in perspective, I decided, but Tom Latimer, Zen FBI agent and curmudgeonly cradle-robber, calls Faye "love duck"?

    Fault Line Andrews, Sarah 2002

  • Oh, that was a nice touch, making her the suffering saint who is content that "her" Alvin is a lying seducing deceiving abandoning bastard-making cradle-robber, because she loves him so.

    Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

  • He and his girlfriend -- who was 20, the cradle-robber -- had been together about a year and a half.

    Politics Stefan Beck 2010

  • He and his girlfriend -- who was 20, the cradle-robber -- had been together about a year and a half.

    Politics Stefan Beck 2010

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