Sekirov Dictionary

gigolo

UK /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.ləʊ/US /ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.loʊ/

noun 3
verb 3
forms 4

noun3

•
(disapproving) A man funded by women who find him attractive.
- How's the, uh, gigolo campaign going? — 1972
•
(old-fashioned) A hired escort or dancing partner.
- I'm just a gigolo / And everywhere I go / People know the part I'm playin' / Paid for every dance / Sellin' each romance / Ooh, what they're sayin' — 1929
(disapproving) A male prostitute with female clients.

verb3

•
To work or act as a gigolo.
- He says he worked at one thing and another, whatever he could get, but near as I can figure out he was mostly gigoloing, and not finding too many heavy-money dames. — 1933
•
To provide (someone) with the services of a gigolo.
- He sat down at my table in an outdoor trattoria to gigolo me and promptly forgot his lines and went blank. — 1982
•
[with oneself] To offer (oneself or someone else) to someone as a gigolo.
- It might be a joke on the rest of the world; it was also a joke on himself, that he had gigoloed himself to such scurfy stuff. — 1931

forms

gigoloed · gigoloing · gigoloes · gigolos

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