stepdad
- noun
- /ˈstɛpˌdæd/
- Informal
- When I was growing up, my stepdad always helped me with my homework.
- mom and stepdad
- dad and stepdad
- stepdad says
Tom Cruise is the tough but fair stepdad we all need right now.
- Tom Cruise is the tough but fair stepdad we all need right now.
- So this kid grew up thinking his stepdad was his real dad.
- So when did when did your stepdad come into the picture?
- I talked to my stepdad probably like once a month, month.
- My my stepdad cooks it phenomenally.
- And, and my stepdad said, if you ever hit Rachel again, I'm leaving you.
- But he had a great stepdad and it still does.
- No, I think my my stepdad just loved animals.
- This has some serious new stepdad vibes, doesn't it?
- Does your mother tell her book club when your stepdad has diarrhea?
- It was bottomless stepdads, the sizzler of stepdads.
- Whatever stepdad says that isn't OK.
- Charlie, my stepdad, he was in high criminality.
- I have a son, I have a stepdad who killed himself.
- Because even my boyfriend and my kunyana, they call their stepdad lease.
Examples
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My stepdad loves to take me fishing on the weekends.
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I introduced my friends to my stepdad at the family reunion.
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So this kid grew up thinking his stepdad was his real dad.
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And you know, my stepdad was like, you need to get a real job.
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Yeah, we need to ask some questions about your stepdad.
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And Teddy's new school friends said, "Hey, I saw your stepdad on TV yesterday."
Fiction book (1999) -
A 12-year-old girl reported: "My stepdad moved in over the summer."
Academic text (2009) -
When cancer took my stepdad in the summer of '09, his papers were a mess.
Blog text (9) -
I have horror stories about my stepdad, who had awful anger issues.
Blog text (6) -
So I might go back to Jersey and live with my stepdad for awhile and save money.
Synonyms
A man who is married to your mother but is not your father
A person married to your parent who is not your birth parent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word stepdad starts with step-, the family part that shows a link 'by marriage' rather than by birth, just like stepmother or stepbrother. So a stepdad is a man who married your mother but is not your birth father.