"sugar baby" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sugar baby.wav [US] Forms: sugar babies [plural]
Etymology: From sugar + baby. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|sugar|baby}} sugar + baby Head templates: {{en-noun}} sugar baby (plural sugar babies)
  1. The younger recipient (usually female or a bottom) of interest from a sugar daddy or sugar mama, especially financial and romantic in an intergenerational relationship
    Sense id: en-sugar_baby-en-noun-D3-gEDkA
  2. A term of endearment; sweetheart. Synonyms (kept): kept man, kept woman, concubine, mistress Synonyms (sweetheart): sweetie, honey, dear, sugar Related terms: sugaring Translations (kept): ស្រីតា (srəytaa) [feminine] (Khmer), ប្រុសយាយ (prohyiəy) (Khmer), sugarbaby [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), mantenido [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-sugar_baby-en-noun-7hbuFc72 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of 'kept': 44 56 Disambiguation of 'sweetheart': 0 100 Disambiguation of 'kept': 44 56

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