"emotional tampon" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: emotional tampons [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} emotional tampon (plural emotional tampons)
  1. (colloquial, derogatory) A man who is used by a woman as a shoulder to cry on and then discarded. Tags: colloquial, derogatory
    Sense id: en-emotional_tampon-en-noun-w~bClEq8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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