"lover-man" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lover-men [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|lover-men}} lover-man (plural lover-men)
  1. Alternative form of loverman Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: loverman
    Sense id: en-lover-man-en-noun-PrM7ss5S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2011, Michael Beloved, Uddhava Gita English",
          "text": "Piṅgalā said: “O, observe the extent of my fantasy, by which I desire the satisfaction of sexual cravings from insignificant lover-men, I am a person whose psyche is not under control, the fool that I am.",
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          "ref": "2013, Sylvester Young, MORE THAN A GAME: A Story About Football and other Stuff",
          "text": "For example, he figured he could pass for a man of forty-five (with his teeth in); that he was a popular man around the town and that the pools win had made him more popular; that he had been a good and loving father to all his children, even Desmond; that his Austin Princess was a gal-magnet and that the powers of cow-cock soup had made him a formidable lover-man once again.",
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          "ref": "2013, Samuel Penman, The Flea Circus, page 17",
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