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trophy wives

trophy wives is the plural of trophy wife.

Meaning of trophy wife

Noun

trophy wife (plural trophy wives)

  1. (derogatory, idiomatic, informal) A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for her husband, usually older and affluent.
    • […] while Mrs. Scott-Baxter, his fourth (and trophy) wife, blonde and young and bored, glowered at the Baxter spawn like a mother mink in a mink farm, just waiting for a jet to strafe the facility, affording her an excuse to feign terror and eat her young.1991, Douglas Coupland, “It Can't Last”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 34

Questions about trophy wives

What is trophy wives the plural of?
Trophy wives is the plural of trophy wife.

Words near trophy wives in the dictionary

  1. trophy room
  2. trophy rooms
  3. trophy veep
  4. trophy veeps
  5. trophy wife
  6. trophy wives
  7. trophy-hunt
  8. trophy-hunted
  9. trophy-hunter
  10. trophy-hunters
  11. trophy-hunting

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