Playboy

See also: playboy and play-boy

English

Proper noun

Playboy

1. A brand of adult magazines introduced in the United States.

Derived terms

• Playboy bunny

Translations

the adult magazine

• Bulgarian: Пле́йбой m or n (Pléjboj)
• German: Playboy (de) m
• Japanese: プレイボーイ (pureibōi)
• Marathi: प्लेबॉय f (plebŏy)
• Portuguese: Playboy f

Noun

Playboy (plural Playboys)

1. A Playboy magazine.

Adjective

Playboy (comparative more Playboy, superlative most Playboy)

1. Pertaining to a hedonistic philosophy and idealized women with exaggerated sexual characteristics.
   • 1998, Jackie Collins, Power, page 34:

     "More Playboy than us." Salli giggled. "I know. Only joking. I've been on Playboy's cover three times. They adore me." She giggled again.

   • 2001, Jesse Ventura, Do I Stand Alone?: Going to the Mat Against Political Pawns and Media Jackals, page 31:

     And when you take a Playboy interview, where they pump sound bites into the media, it all sounds much harsher than you intended.

   • 2004, Inman Majors, Wonderdog, page 180:

     And ready to do something for the state too. / Do what? / Lead it, says Shade. / He couldn't lead a frat house across the street to the Playboy mansion.

   • a. 2006, Timothy 'Speed' Levitch, "Wall Street: The Story of What Happened to Our Intimacy", in Alan Kaufman, The Outlaw Bible of American Essays, page 48

     There is more history of New York City in a Playboy centerfold than in the entire Encyclopedia of New York or any other academic study of the place.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English playboy.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Playboy m (strong, genitive Playboys, plural Playboys)

1. (colloquial) playboy (a single man who devotes himself to a life of leisure and pleasure)
   • 2010, Marie Ferrarella, Ein Playboy zum Küssen, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5:

     Gloria schnitt eine Grimasse. Bei Jorge waren wirklich Hopfen und Malz verloren. Er würde sein Leben lang ein Playboy bleiben.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2014, Isabelle Wallon, Bleib heute Nacht bei mir: Ein Romantic-Kiss-Roman - Band 15, dotbooks, →ISBN, page 107:

     Wenn man den Berichten nämlich Glauben schenken durfte, dann war Frank Kerrigan im Jetset von Cincinnati die Nummer eins. Und ein Playboy sollte er ebenfalls sein, der ständig hinter allem her war, was Röcke trug.

     If the reports were to be believed, Frank Kerrigan was number one on the Cincinnati jet set. And he would also be a playboy who was always after anything wearing a skirt.

   • 2015, Jon Lee Anderson, Che - Die Biographie, Ullstein Ebooks, →ISBN:

     »Der Vater führte sich auf wie ein Playboy«, erinnert sich Tatiana Quiroga, eine Freundin der Guevara-Kinder. »... wenn er gearbeitet und Geld verdient hatte, gab er alles aus ... indem er sich mit ›jungen Damen‹ traf, denen er Kleider und irgendwelchen Schnickschnack kaufte.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2020, Eva Bolsani, Ein Playboy für Valentina, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 46:

     Das war doch nicht Maximilian Wolff, angesehener Galerist, international geschätzter Kunstdetektiv und bekannter Playboy?!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of Playboy [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Playboy	die	Playboys
genitive	eines	des	Playboys	der	Playboys
dative	einem	dem	Playboy	den	Playboys
accusative	einen	den	Playboy	die	Playboys