noun

• 1British informal, dated A person's male lover.

  More example sentences

  • ‘it's not right she should be flouncing around with her fancy man’
  • ‘‘And to cap it all, Ephesia has got herself a fancy man,’ he might have added.’
  • ‘She only told Arthur, but didn't twig that her new fancy man is a journalist.’
  • ‘In the seven part series - already being hailed a hit - Rebecca's 16-year-old character makes moves on her mother's alcoholic fancy man Frank, causing all sorts of trouble.’
  • ‘She also spent a lot of my money last summer riding around with her fancy-man.’
  • ‘And then his mother had run off with her 'fancy man', so Gran said.’

  Synonyms

  partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, man, woman, lady friend, lady-love, loved one, beloved, love, darling, sweetheart

• 2archaic A pimp.

  ‘She falls for the guy who everyone knows is a fancy man, and now she's all upset.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A prostitute attempts to make him her "fancy man." Finally he becomes a rich girl's "companion."’

  Synonyms

  procurer, procuress