sugar baby

American  

[shoog-er bey-bee] / ˈʃʊg ər ˌbeɪ bi /

noun

Slang.

1. a younger person who provides romantic companionship or sexual intimacy to a wealthy older person in return for gifts or financial support.

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Etymology

Origin of sugar baby

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Aitken also captures the emotional work as Masear uses her skills to save an injured bird, like Sugar Baby, whose wings are deteriorating because of human abuse.

From Salon

Many would be tempted by the sweet Sugar Baby watermelons, Mr. Price predicted while drinking Milo’s sweet tea from a dripping gallon jug.

From New York Times

After they kissed, Crazy Town’s iconic track spilled out of the boombox — “Come my lady, come, come my lady. You’re my butterfly, sugar, baby” — and Ballera lifted her eyebrows in excitement, bursting into laughter.

From Los Angeles Times

It represents the artist Kara Walker, whose installation, “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby,” had recently opened in the former Domino Sugar compound in Brooklyn.

From New York Times

Another room houses a machine covered in incomprehensible widgets and tubes, plus a turtle named Sugar Baby.

From New York Times