father-out-law
father-out-law noun: the father of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
Noun
father-out-law (plural fathers-out-law)
- The father of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
- The father of any of one's friends.
- The father of one's ex-spouse.
- One day, in an argument with his wife, Haydar, he made a terrible mistake. He refused to acknowledge Henock Beamare as his father-in-law. Instead, he referred to him as his father-out-law.2013, Lucien Nzeyimana, Burning the Last Straw (Fiction), →ISBN, 0THUAQAAQBAJ, page 174
- In the absence of the father in his role as father-in-law to Malone, the would be son-in-law comes under the direction of another father figure, the scientist Challenger, who rather than a substitute father-in-law can more pertinently be seen as a father-out-law.2017, Josephine Sharoni, chapter 4, in Lacan and Fantasy Literature: Portents of Modernity in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction (Psychology), →ISBN, 0THUAQAAQBAJ, page 57
Forms of father-out-law
| plural | fathers-out-law |
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Origin of father-out-law
From father + -out-law, by analogy to father-in-law.
Questions about father-out-law
- What does father-out-law mean?
- Father-out-law means the father of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
- What part of speech is father-out-law?
- Father-out-law is a noun.
- What is the plural of father-out-law?
- The plural of father-out-law is fathers-out-law.
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