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dirty old man noun- a lecher; especially a middle-aged or older man with sexual appetites considered more appropriate in someone younger UK, 1932
Given impetus in the UK in the late 1960s–early 70s by television comedy series Steptoe and Son. - O’MALLY: Did you ever see such pins [legs], did you, did you honestly? TAYLOR: You’re a dirty old man you are, Paddy. — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 87, 1959
- All you have to do, as every Dirty Old Man knows, is offer them a bar of candy[.] — G. Legman, The Fake Revolt, p. 10, 1967
- I was amazed that Pete believed somehow that he fell outside the DOM category. — Kitty Churchill, Thinking of England, p. 198, 1995
- any homosexual man older than the homosexual male speaker US
- — Guy Strait, The Lavendar Lexicon, 1 June 1964
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