kept man
nounEtymology From kept + man.
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A man who lives off his lover.
- 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:
- 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: