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gigolo

[jig-uh-loh, zhig-] / ˈdʒɪg əˌloʊ, ˈʒɪg- /


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“What? Why would your dad think you’re a gigolo? Didn’t you say you were a writer, a voice-over actor, a comedian, a hotel bellman?”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2023

"I stepped up on the kerb and, as my foot came down, I was like, 'Who's that gigolo on the street?'" says the singer.

From BBC Feb. 1, 2020

The character Joanna has been reinvented as Joe, played by Enzo Cilenti as an old-style continental gigolo.

From New York Times Aug. 12, 2019

The cyberpunk novels of William Gibson, Jude Law’s bittersweet robot gigolo from Kubrick and Spielberg’s AI, plus the romantic entanglements of the two heartbroken Blade Runners, Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, all come to mind.

From The Guardian May 1, 2019

From that afternoon, throughout the next two weeks, if any girl as thoroughly fine as Mary Hubbell could be said to run after any man, Mary ran after that gigolo.

From Gigolo by Ferber, Edna

Las Vegas has been a major player in reality television for years, with shows about pawn shops, tattoo artists, hot rods, casinos, cage fighters, limo drivers, gigolos and polygamists.

From Washington Times Mar. 19, 2015

"Salome," epicene and sleepy, the "Woman In the Moon," "Venus" in a modern gown, Pierrots, Sapphos, gigolos, whatnots.

From Time Magazine Archive

Union In Paris, 100 professional dancers unionized themselves against "gigolos" who, by their "insidious manners" and second-rate dancing, have discredited the profession.

From Time Magazine Archive

It certainly isn't fair in the light of the matter to have called these gentlemen the title of "gigolos."

From Time Magazine Archive

But Rorem's Paris Diary notes instead that Hutton danced with "one of the forgotten gigolos."

From Time Magazine Archive




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