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kept man/woman
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a kept man/woman (humorous)
someone who does not work and who is given money and a place to live by the person who they are having a sexual relationship with. She was determined to find work and not become a kept woman like her sister.
See also: man, woman

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Coulter (known for directing episodes of ``The Sopranos'' and ``Sex and the City'') and first-time screenwriter Paul Bernbaum try out each theory a la ``Rashomon,'' but as the movie choppily shifts between time frames, the mystery becomes less interesting than watching Reeves trying to reconcile his dreams to the realties of being a kept man and fading actor.
``The only thing that has kept man going on Earth is they have always had a frontier.
 
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