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 • Jan. 9, 2025

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 • Jun. 27, 2023

September is a cornucopian time, when late-summer and early-fall harvests mingle, the first butternut squash next to the last Sugar Baby watermelons.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

In 2014, her first large-scale public project was A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, a colossal sugar-coated monument of a sphinxlike woman located on the former site of Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2019

But what happened during the months long viewing of The Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby was shocking to some.

From Time • Nov. 19, 2014