lady-killer

[lady-killer] {n.}, {informal}

1. Any man who has strong sex appeal toward women.

* /Joe is a regular lady-killer./

2. A man who relentlessly pursues amorous conquests, is successful at it, and then abandons his heartbroken victims.

* /The legendary Don Juan of Spain is the most famous lady-killer of recorded history./

Compare: LADY'S MAN.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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