If you're a rich man and your woman pays attention to you only when she wants your credit card, you're bein' played by a sugar baby!

Sugar daddies prefer to think of it as a special friendship in which they provide gifts and help to a deserving young woman. And sugar babies convince themselves that a nice boyfriend should want to help out with his girlfriend, and in return she would naturally want to show her appreciation by spending time with him.

Diary of a Sugar Baby by American Geisha Day One After eight years of post-divorce dating trauma, I'd had enough, and decided to search for a Sugar Daddy on SeekingArrangement.com.

There is even a Web site devoted to rating the quality of sugar daddy / sugar baby Web sites!

1926, John Steinbeck, The Saturday Evening Post, Volume 198, link
"Sugar baby, daddy not only shot you — he tried to kill you!" A look of sweet ecstasy came into the wounded lady's eyes.

Sugar baby

Meaning

Noun