sugar daddy

noun

|Updated on: 12 Jul 2018

Examples: sugar daddy in a Sentence

Definition of sugar daddy

1 : a well-to-do usually older man who supports or spends lavishly on a mistress, girlfriend, or boyfriend

2 : a generous benefactor of a cause or undertaking

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Examples of sugar daddy in a Sentence

She's on the lookout for a new sugar daddy.
the only reason the town has any Independence Day fireworks in the first place is because the Internet tycoon has willingly become the event's de facto sugar daddy

Recent Examples of sugar daddy from the Web

Besides, even these governments must finally see the nonviability of a world order built on America being every country’s sugar daddy.

— holman w. jenkins, WSJ, "A Foreigner’s Guide to Trade War," 26 June 2018
Even the old sugar daddies seem wary of anything outside their rich but circumscribed circle.

— tom gliatto, PEOPLE.com, "The Assassination of Gianni Versace," 17 Jan. 2018
In a classic sugar daddy (or mama) relationship, the older person gives the younger person money for bills, housing, clothes and/or personal grooming and gets companionship to whatever level the two of them agree.

— david j. neal, miamiherald, "Florida college students sure love their sugar daddies, website says," 8 Jan. 2018
Unfortunately for all sugar daddies in revolt, the T-shirt is currently sold out.

— andrea park, Glamour, "Rihanna Says Goodbye to Her 20s While Wearing an 'I Hate Rihanna' T-Shirt," 20 Feb. 2018
Andrew, good-looking and glibly sophisticated, becomes a gigolo to some very rich sugar daddies in San Diego.

— tom gliatto, PEOPLE.com, "The Assassination of Gianni Versace," 17 Jan. 2018
Some college students deal with the financial realities of getting a college education by getting a sugar daddy.

— david j. neal, miamiherald, "Florida college students sure love their sugar daddies, website says," 8 Jan. 2018
The party enlisted national sugar daddies like the Kochs, and regional ones like Art Pope in North Carolina.

— charles p. pierce, Esquire, "A Rising Constitutional Crisis No One Is Talking About," 12 Oct. 2017

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