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kept men

kept men is the plural of kept man.

Meaning of kept man

Noun

kept man (plural kept men)

  1. A man who lives off his lover.
    • The kept man—in and out of marriage—is quite a feature of life in our chaste little village.a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, chapter 17, in Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
    Synonyms:
    kept boy, ponce

Questions about kept men

What is kept men the plural of?
Kept men is the plural of kept man.

Words near kept men in the dictionary

  1. kept it one hundred
  2. kept it together
  3. kept it up
  4. kept man
  5. kept measures
  6. kept men
  7. kept off
  8. kept off the street
  9. kept off the streets
  10. kept on
  11. kept on about

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