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trophy girlfriend

trophy girlfriend noun: a girlfriend, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for her partner, usually older and affluent.

Noun

trophy girlfriend (plural trophy girlfriends)

  1. A girlfriend, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for her partner, usually older and affluent.
    • In her own way, she was as much a mass of insecurities as Cecily had been, and for the same reasons. Valued by her mother for her looks and what they earned. The trophy girlfriend, desired by men for her glamour. But until Dimitrios, never loved for herself; for the woman inside the body, the brain...2008, Catherine Spencer, chapter 6, in The Giannakis Bride, Harlequin, page 89
    • The previous night had been bad enough, being paraded as a possible gold-digger or at best a trophy girlfriend chosen for her looks. Olivia had looked up that article in the sleepless pre-dawn hours and knew now what she had already suspected. All Adam cared about were a woman’s looks.2014, Nina Milne, chapter 5, in How to Bag a Billionaire, Mills & Boon, page 64

Examples of trophy girlfriend in a sentence

  • The trophy girlfriend, desired by men for her glamour.2008, Catherine Spencer, chapter 6, in The Giannakis Bride, Harlequin, page 89:
  • Anyway, being a trophy girlfriend was a job in itself, I can tell you,” Cindy said with feeling.2017, Joan Brady, chapter 6, in The Cinderella Reflex, Poolbeg Press, page 87:
  • Maybe because I was going from trophy girlfriend to trophy girlfriend, ignoring the nagging feeling that I wasn’t getting what I really wanted and having no idea what that meant.2017, Daryl Banner, chapter 4, in Football Sundae, Frozenfyre Publishing, page 46:

Forms of trophy girlfriend

pluraltrophy girlfriends

Origin of trophy girlfriend

By analogy with trophy wife.

Questions about trophy girlfriend

What does trophy girlfriend mean?
Trophy girlfriend means a girlfriend, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for her partner, usually older and affluent.
How do you use trophy girlfriend in a sentence?
The trophy girlfriend, desired by men for her glamour.
What part of speech is trophy girlfriend?
Trophy girlfriend is a noun.
What is the plural of trophy girlfriend?
The plural of trophy girlfriend is trophy girlfriends.

Words near trophy girlfriend in the dictionary

  1. trophy
  2. trophy boyfriend
  3. trophy boyfriends
  4. trophy case
  5. trophy cases
  6. trophy girlfriend
  7. trophy girlfriends
  8. trophy hunt
  9. trophy hunted
  10. trophy hunter
  11. trophy hunters

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