lover boy

   Used to a man or a boy who is thought to be particularly successful in attracting women. In The Taste of Too Much, by Clifford Hanley, a youth starts to call a classmate ‘lover boy’ because a girl has begun to show interest in him. ‘Finally Peter said, in the manner of an indulgent parent wearied by a nuisance child: ‘You know, Sidney, if you lover-boy just once more I’ll bash your teeth back round your tonsils.” ‘Like Any Other Man, by Patrick Boyle, has a woman saying to her lover: ‘Come on, lover-boy, what’s keeping you?’ A young black American prostitute, in One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, by Robert Gover, says to her client: ‘I likes t’see you happy, Loverboy.’ The term is used insultingly in The Front Runner, by Patricia Nell Warren, where a man yells at a homosexual male athlete: ‘Hey, loverboy, whose girlfriend are you?’