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trophy wife

noun

  1. the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of trophy wife1

An Americanism dating back to 1985–90
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Example Sentences

"Trump clearly saw Diana as the ultimate trophy wife," Scott wrote.

From Salon

Belatedly, a hint of a plot emerges, involving the arrival of multiple disruptive figures from Massimo’s past, who stoke Laura’s lingering dissatisfaction with being a mobster’s trophy wife.

A trophy wife who spends her days sitting on a shelf for her husband to admire.

Constrained by her roles as her mother’s unwilling model and her ex-husband’s trophy wife, she jumps to conclusions about her half-sister, misreads sexual cues, struggles to find depth beneath the surface.

Pastor says women may not be ‘epic trophy wife’ but should be thin for their husbands.

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