babymamma

plural babymammas

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of baby mama.

   When Muse frontman Matt Bellamy, 36, stepped out with a hot blonde at the Cannes Film Festival’s amfAR Gala, we thought he’d reunited with former fiancée Kate Hudson. But it turns out the leggy lady wasn’t his babymamma – it was his new look-alike girlfriend Elle Evans!

   2015, “Are Kate & Matt Back On?”, in Nicole Byers, editor, NW, volume 23, number 23, Sydney, N.S.W.: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29

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   Their plan was deceptively simple. Thelonius’s babymamma Lilette worked as a cleaning-lady – but never for very long. As soon as any household felt the time was right to entrust her with a doorkey, Lilette felt the time was right to entrust it to Thelonius (who had it copied) and then quit the following day.

   1989, Martin Amis, “Little Did They Know”, in London Fields, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 247

   Again, he was watching Terryterry’s women, the two little girls with their stunts on the slide and the swing, the mum in the kitchen tapping on the glass above the sink, like any mum anywhere, which was probably how she saw herself, no babymamma, no hired box or Quacko test-tube.

   1995, Martin Amis, [chapter 22], in The Information, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, part 4, page 412

   Isn’t it ironic that after the Montgomery bus boycott, the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, Black Power, feminism, and so-called free love, gender relations between black men and women are worse than ever? Our language reflects the low regard we have for one another. We are no longer husbands and wives, lovers, partners, significant others, or even friends, but bitches and niggas, chickenheads and scrubs, babymammas, babydaddies, and boos.

   2001 August–September, Angela Ards, “Where Is the Love?”, in Marcia Ann Gillespie, editor, Ms., volume XI, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Liberty Media for Women, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 56–57