arm candy
AmericanEtymology
Origin of arm candy
1990–95
Example Sentences
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If an equally attractive woman had worn a shirt that read, "It's not easy being my husband's arm candy," it would have come across as bragging, no?
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2023
The music informed fashion and movies and defined how Generation X presented itself; it also moved rock away from hair metal’s depiction of women as bikini-clad arm candy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
If I’d known I was just arm candy I’d have expected better birthday presents.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2020
Kristoff and an oily prince called Hans yap about, gesturing at being the hero, before winding up as arm candy for Anna, an irrelevance to Elsa.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2019
They have been treated like fakes and posers and interlopers and arm candy.
From The Verge ● Dec. 21, 2017
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