starter marriage
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
starter marriage (plural starter marriages)
- (informal) A first marriage for an individual or couple that either was short-lived or is expected to be unsuccessful, especially when viewed as serving as preparation for a subsequent marriage.
- 2008, Cooper Lawrence, The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace with Your Inner Overachiever, Guilford, Connecticut: skirt!, →ISBN, page 212:
- A starter marriage is one where the couple marries young and gets divorced before the arrival of the first child—and usually before the arrival of the first wrinkle. Starter marriages are more common among overachievers.
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References[edit]
- Most Outrageous Word of the Year, American Dialect Society
- “starter marriage, n.” under “starter, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2022.
