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cradle snatcher
noun
informal, someone who marries or has an affair with a much younger person
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The English press labeled him a “cradle snatcher.”
From Washington Post
When Emma asked after William at a Prince's Trust gig later, Prince Charles reportedly quipped: "Don't be a cradle snatcher."
From BBC
"I was a cradle snatcher," he notes gleefully of the woman he met when she was 17.
I ask' all over the neighbourhood, an' not a woman but looked on me for a cradle snatcher—thought I wanted to abduct her child away from her.
From Project Gutenberg
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