babyfather

plural babyfathers · alternative baby father · alternative baby-father

1. CaribbeanJamaicaAfrican-American VernacularThe biological father of a (woman's) child, especially one to whom she is not married.

   It turned out that the guy who punched Pinky was the babyfather of a girl Tommy was running with.

   2012, Ben Black, Shooters: Guns and Gangs in Manchester in the Twenty-first Century

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   But how do the facts about Jeanette's extended family elucidate the suddenly emergent conflict between Jeanette and her babyfather that I witnessed?

   2000, Huon Wardle, An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica, page 49

   She hated being outside of me and my partner in the holiday break, outside of her mother and grandmother in the Caribbean, and outside of the babyfather and his other babymother.

   2019, Barbara Fletchman Smith, Transcending the Legacies of Slavery: A Psychoanalytic View, page 66

   Synonyms: baby daddy