skirt chaser

plural skirt chasers · alternative skirt-chaser

1. idiomaticA man with amorous intentions who habitually seeks out female companionship.

   He is an irrepressible flirt: a skirt chaser who claims to pursue three women at a time.

   2008 March 31, Anand Giridharadas, “Flirting by Text Message, Indians Test Social Limits”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Oct 2012

   2 more examples

   Heaven Can Wait (20th Century-Fox) is a lengthy but frequently funny life history of an old New York skirt chaser (Don Ameche) from his brownstone puberty to his overripe old age.

   1943 July 19, “The New Pictures”, in Time, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2008

   That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew.

   1958, Robert Bloch, That Hell-Bound Train

   Synonyms: womanizer, adulterer, bed-hopper, carpetmonger, chamberer, debauchee, debaucher, fornicator