Crossword clues for playboy
playboy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A man who does not work, but devotes himself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities.
WordNet
n. a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure [syn: man-about-town, Corinthian]
Wikipedia
Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. Notable for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude models ( Playmates), Playboy played an important role in the sexual revolution and remains one of the world's best-known brands, having grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of Playboy are published worldwide.
The magazine has a long history of publishing short stories by notable novelists such as Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, P. G. Wodehouse, Haruki Murakami, and Margaret Atwood. With a regular display of full-page color cartoons, it became a showcase for notable cartoonists, including Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Erich Sokol, Roy Raymonde, Gahan Wilson, and Rowland B. Wilson. Playboy features monthly interviews of notable public figures, such as artists, architects, economists, composers, conductors, film directors, journalists, novelists, playwrights, religious figures, politicians, athletes and race car drivers. The magazine generally reflects a liberal editorial stance, although it often interviews conservative celebrities.
The Brazilian edition of Playboy is a local franchise of Playboy magazine. Established in 1975 by Editora Abril, it was only the fourth overall international version of the magazine, following Germany, Italy and France.
Playboy is a men's magazine.
Playboy may also refer to:
- Playboy (lifestyle)
- The Playboy, a graphic novel
- The Playboys, 1992 film starring Robin Wright
- Jeremy Klein, nicknamed Playboy, American professional skateboarder
- Playboy: A Portfolio of Art and Satire, periodical published by Egmont Arens 1919-1924
- Playboy Automobile Company, an automobile company (1947–51)
- Playboys gang, a street gang in Southern California and various other states
- Play-Boy (pinball), a pinball machine
"Playboy" was the Finnish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966, performed in Finnish by Ann Christine.
"Playboy" marks the debut for veteran Eurovision conductor Ossi Runne; he conducted 21 of Finland's 22 entries in the Contest between the years 1966 and 1989, the only exception being 1981's " Reggae OK" with Riki Sorsa.
The song was performed seventh on the night, following Norway's Åse Kleveland with " Intet er nytt under solen" and preceding Portugal's Madalena Iglésias with " Ele e ela". At the close of voting, it had received 7 points, placing 10th in a field of 18.
It was succeeded as Finnish representative at the 1967 contest by Fredi with " Varjoon - suojaan".
A playboy is a wealthy man with ample time for leisure, who demonstratively is a bon vivant (appreciates the pleasures of the world, especially women). The term "playboy" is sometimes used to describe a conspicuous womanizer.
"Playboy" is a song composed by Brian Holland, Robert Bateman, Mickey Stevenson and singer Gladys Horton, lead vocalist of the Motown singing group The Marvelettes, who recorded the song and released it as a single on Motown's Tamla imprint in 1962. The single, led by Horton, is about a man who fools around with a lot of women and the woman who narrates the story warns him to stay away from her due to the stories she heard of him "running around with every woman in town". Horton is helped out in the song by her Marvelettes cohorts Wanda Young, Georgeanna Tillman, Katherine Anderson & Juanita Cowart. This was released as the third single by the Marvelettes and was their second top ten pop hit reaching number seven on the charts while reaching number four on the R&B chart.
Playboy is the third album by Motown girl group, The Marvelettes, released to capitalize on their hit singles " Playboy" and " Beechwood 4-5789", in 1962. It also includes the single "Someday, Someway" and "Forever", a heartfelt standard that would be released the following year as the B-side of the single " Locking Up My Heart" and join the A-side on the charts. Other compositions include "Goddess of Love", "Cry Over You", and "Mix It Up". George Gordy, William "Mickey" Stevenson and Marvin Gaye, who had produced "Beechwood 4-5789" all did some work on the Playboy LP as well.
Usage examples of "playboy".
Schuyler Kimball, playboy billionaire, to know the man would never have a woman like this in his employ without sampling her personal wares on a regular basis.
Anywhere else, Montero played his fabricated past and his wealthy, high-class playboy image to the hilt.
Instead of declaring his sexuality, he is driven to adopt the pose of playboy, thus attracting the criticism reserved for transracial adulterers.
Eden in bed with other men, especially smarmy Eurotrash playboys intent on betraying her.
It was all about the Channel tunnel and a landscape awash in Eurotrash, and French fashion victims, and acid rain, and lugubrious Belgians, and Iranian language students, and lager louts swilling Heineken, and football hooligans, and holes in the ozone layer, and Italian playboys, and South American drug lords, and Swiss banks, and AmEx Goldcards, and the greenhouse effect, and the Age of Inconsequence, and soon and so forth.
This was the arty lifestyle, mixing with the great and the rich, the playboys and the glittery set who had second homes in the south-west of Ireland.
The room was crowded with white rabbits, Playboy bunnies, Bugs Bunny, the Wolf Man, Ku Kluxers, Ma-fiosos, Lepke with accusing eyes, a dormouse, a mad hatter, the King of Hearts, the Prince of Wands, and Jung was shouting over the din.
Though McIntyre could be a bit of a playboy and partyer, he had a good feel for who was who among the contractors and his standing with the administration was impeccable.
Eastern boy, a Harvard grad become lawyer become playboy, gambler, schmoozer of pretty females, his favorite for several years being Jessica Huston.
Pilar Cafe basement had been decorated more or less like an Edwardian brothel, with one-dimensional naked trollops, rather than real whores, debauching around on feed calendars, and framed Playboy centerfolds lining the golden walls.
He and Winston had been a couple of Don Juans, playboys, wild and reckless, according to the family gossip she had heard.
For years the Pilar Cafe basement had been decorated more or less like an Edwardian brothel, with one-dimensional naked trollops, rather than real whores, debauching around on feed calendars, and framed Playboy centerfolds lining the golden walls.
My first sale to Playboy, a secret dream actualized through the direct involvement in my life of Huck Barkin.
Each was given its own sharply delineated personality traits: the Aristocratic Philosopher: the Promiscuous Child-Woman: the First Rich Ex--Wife (a Bitch): the Aging Groupie: the Pope’s Driver: the Underwater Plumber: the Traumatized Quarterback: the Blackballed Golfer: the Three Society Girls: the Playboys: the Golden Child and His Ideal Mother: the Deceitful Publisher: the Angry Professor: the Goddess of Victory (an exceptionally beautiful cyborg modeled after Kronos’s abandoned lover.
The king of Hollywood, two mass murderers, a dying Playboy centrefold, a rinsed‑out old hag of an ex‑wife, a spoilt, sexy little weeping teen… blood, guns… we’ve got it all.