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a kept man

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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


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In Breakfast at Tiffany’s Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak were faced with restrictions—he was a kept man, she was a kept woman—but in the end they surmounted them and chose love over money.
While his chart shows potential gains through partners, he would hate to be thought of as a kept man in the shadow of someone as vibrant a star as ex-love J-Lo - big, big clashes there.
You wrote saying you had been a kept man and how much wanted to get back with her.
 
 
 
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