playboy
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playboys
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Origin of playboy
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The 41-year-old royal misfit has long struggled with the monarchy's strictures, shaking off the angry young man and "playboy prince" tags only to find himself at loggerheads with his closest relatives.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
Jarvis, the fictional AI from Marvel, was once known for helping billionaire playboy turned superhero Tony Stark save the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Oh yeah, and in 1992 Donald Trump was a playboy tycoon in his mid-40s, at the peak of his tabloid celebrity.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
He has the tender, shining eyes of an ingenue while Del Campo, who has a striking birthmark on her cheek, is a femme fatale able to hold her own against Wolff’s selfish, useless playboy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
You’re a failure, a playboy, a racetrack tout.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Paul was “one of the most gregarious playboys in New York City,” according to biographer Frank Brady, author of “The Publisher,” and Paul and William Randolph Hearst were regulars at New York nightclubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
It’s a release created in SEO heaven: three of the buzziest playboys in music record a song and name it after one of the hottest genres in the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
Until his social media ban, Tate was operating something called Hustler University, which promised, for $49 a month, to turn his audience into rich playboys, as he presents himself to be.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2022
He reserves some of his greatest ire for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who criticized the early CIA as a refuge of irresponsible adventurers, Ivy League playboys and communist sympathizers.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2020
He worships the vuvv playboys he works for.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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