Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

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  • noun A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman from whom he receives payment.
  • noun A hired escort or dancing partner for a woman.

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  • noun a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, perhaps from gigolette, dancing girl, prostitute, from giguer, to dance, from gigue, fiddle, from Old French; see gigot.]

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Examples

  • Back then, when society could be broken down straightforwardly into such basic and absolute categories, the title gigolo must have been easier to apply and decidedly less pejorative.

    the latest from teenvogue.com 2010

  • On the form of one applicant, some classroom enemy or irresponsible jokester had crossed out "lawyer" or "teacher" or whatever safe bet the kid had written down, and inserted instead - clearly in another hand - the word "gigolo".

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Sam "The Man," the gentleman gigolo, is looking camera shy.

    Comme Si de Rien N'Etait - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Sam "The Man," the gentleman gigolo, is looking camera shy.

    Braise The Dog 2009

  • Sam "The Man," the gentleman gigolo, is looking camera shy.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Sam "The Man," the gentleman gigolo, is looking camera shy.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • This elitist, narcissistic, gigolo is an embarrassment and for the PI to back him just how out of touch they are.

    Sound Politics: Seattle P-I in a death spiral 2006

  • A man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo.

    The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said Robert Byrne 1990

  • I have been called a gigolo, a freeloader, unemployed, a sham, and many other things that don ` t bear repeating.

    CNN Transcript May 13, 2008 2008

  • I have been called a gigolo, a free-loader, unemployed, a sham and many other things that don ` t bear repeating.

    CNN Transcript May 14, 2008 2008

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  • 10^^21 picolos (= 10^^9 los)

    November 7, 2007

  • How are you feeling?

    I don't think you can be dealing

    With the situation very well

    You take a lover for a dirty weekend, that's OK

    But when it's over

    You are looking at the working week through the eyes of a gigolo

    (Seeing other people, by Belle and Sebastian)

    August 8, 2008