babe magnet

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Noun

babe magnet (plural babe magnets)

  1. (chiefly Canada, US, idiomatic, slang) Synonym of chick magnet
    • 2003 November 13, The New Yorker:
      Donald Rumsfeld had become a sex symbol. She observed that he was called a “virtual rock star” on CNN, a “babe magnet” on Fox, and “Rumstud” by the president.
    • 2011 November 3, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting shamu1 (Il Mondo di Odore), “Marketing to the Maxim Set, Cont.”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      Those of you who were in diapers during this time may not understand this, but Drakkar Noir was considered a serious babe magnet back in the day.

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