Noun
A well-off person who indulges himself or herself; a playboy or playgirl.
Usage- US usage
- Dated
- endearing
- Slang
- usually
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And you fellows, if you find some cake-eaters trying to take advantage of your sister, what are you going to do?
"Nowadays, these cake-eaters all died young. They had no teeth. They all went to doctors who fixed teeth. But still they died young and without their teeth."
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"'... We got us a cake eater, right here at the sink!' He turned to me. 'Have you ever had your hands dirty, new kid?'"
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, eater.
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If ever there was a birthday in the home she would bake a special cake for the occasion, with the result that very few of our inmates lasted for more than a year. I myself am no great cake-eater, and I made a special point of keeping my birthday secret.