gigolo

plural gigolos

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

   How's the, uh, gigolo campaign going?

   1972, Jay Presson Allen, Cabaret, spoken by Brian Roberts (Michael York)

2. A man funded by women who find him attractive
   1. datedA hired escort or dancing partner.

      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'

      1929, “Just a Gigolo”, Irving Caesar (lyrics), Leonello Casucci (music)

   2. A male prostitute with female clients.

present singular third person gigoloes · present singular third person gigolos · participle present gigoloing · participle past gigoloed · past gigoloed

1. intransitiveTo work or act as a gigolo.

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

   1988, John Grant (as Jonathan Gash), chapter 30, in Jade Woman, page 221

   2 more examples

   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.

   1933, Dashiel Hammett, chapter 11, in The Thin Man

   ‘[…] [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!’

   2009, Amrita Chowdhury, Faking It, page 286

2. transitiveTo 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.

   1982, Tom McHale, chapter 20, in Dear Friends, page 217

   1 more example

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

   2008, Liz Tuccillo, How to Be Single, page 247

3. reflexivetransitiveTo 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.

   1931, Samuel Roth, chapter 21, in The Private Life of Frank Harris, page 257

   1 more example

   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.

   1968, MacKinlay Kantor, The Day I Met a Lion, page 33