silver fox

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sense 3 (George Clooney)

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silver fox (plural silver foxes)

  2. A melanistic red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with silver to black fur.
  4. A domestic rabbit of a rare breed with silvery-black fur.
  6. (colloquial) An attractive man who has graying hair.
    Coordinate term: silver vixen
    • 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
      My surprise visitor was Marcus, arriving early for the party. In tow he had a mean silver fox, a curator who was programming an encyclopedic exhibition of the anti-epoch to which Marcus and I belonged at a major museum.
    • 2023 August 10, Zoe Williams, “Ripped, hot and in your 50s? You are now, officially, ‘beekeeping age’”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      It’s more useful as a gender neutral term, saving the hassle of constant translation – Milf to Dilf, cougar to silver fox, mutton dressed up as lamb to beef dressed up as veal.

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