gigolo

noun

1. A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly

   “How's the, uh, gigolo campaign going?”

2. (dated)A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly

   “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'”

3. A man funded by women who find him attractive, particularly

verb

1. (intransitive)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.”

   “Since my arrival I’d lost seventeen pounds. What with gigoloing all night, working all day, worrying myself flaming sick, I’d had enough.”

   “‘[…] [He was s]electing paintings to be forged, supplying canvases and materials, scripting out the fake papers, while you gigoloed with every woman in town and beyond, getting them to paint or deal or buy these fricking pieces, these masterfully detailed fakes!’”

2. (transitive)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.”

   “The beach wasn’t crowded yet, and as far as I could tell, there were no gigolos or women waiting to be gigoloed.”

3. (reflexive, transitive)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.”

   “What would have happened just then I do not know, if Mr. Vertigo had not appeared with the family collie, whom he had gigoloed to Carl Schurz Park.”