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cradle robbers

cradle robbers is the plural of cradle robber.

Meaning of cradle robber

Noun

cradle robber (plural cradle robbers)

  1. (derogatory, idiomatic) A person who marries or becomes romantically involved with someone who is much younger, or who employs or otherwise engages a young person for a purpose inappropriate for his or her age.
    • "And no mother," he shouted, "can call ME a ‘fortune-hunter’ and a ‘cradle-robber’ and think I'll make good by marrying her daughter!"1914, Richard Harding Davis, The Man Who Could Not Lose
    Synonyms:
    cradle snatcher

Questions about cradle robbers

What is cradle robbers the plural of?
Cradle robbers is the plural of cradle robber.

Words near cradle robbers in the dictionary

  1. cradle holes
  2. Cradle Mountain
  3. cradle of civilization
  4. Cradle of Humankind
  5. cradle robber
  6. cradle robbers
  7. cradle snatcher
  8. cradle snatchers
  9. cradle song
  10. cradle songs
  11. cradle walk

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