skirt chaser
- noun
- /skɜrt ˈtʃeɪsər/
- Offensive
- Everyone in town knows Tom as a skirt chaser because he flirts with all the women at every event.
Examples
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Now, midgets are notorious skirt chasers.
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- Some skirt chaser.
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At the party, he acted like a true skirt chaser, making compliments to every girl he met.
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My brother is quite the skirt chaser; he's always pursuing new relationships without any serious intentions.
Synonyms
A man who likes and attracts many women by flirting
A man who makes unwanted sexual advances toward women
A person who behaves playfully to attract romantic interest
A man who has many short romantic relationships with women
A person who chases someone or tries hard to get something
A man who is pushy toward women by making unwanted romantic moves
A person who acts playfully to show they like someone
A man who keeps trying to start romantic or sexual relationships with women in a pushy way
A person who often seeks casual sex with many partners
How Flirtatious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a man who habitually pursues women' is directly derivable from combining 'skirt' (used metonymically for 'woman') with 'chaser' (a pursuer). Although 'skirt' as a term for women is colloquial and potentially offensive, the compositional logic is straightforward and predictable to learners who know the constituent senses.
Etymology
Skirt chaser likely comes from a simple picture of a man running after a woman's skirt. Because skirt was used to mean 'woman' and chaser means someone who pursues, the phrase now means 'a man who habitually pursues women'.