palimony
/ˈpalɪməni
/noun [mass noun] informal, chiefly North American
Compensation made by one member of an unmarried couple to the other after separation: she is suing for palimony a palimony trial in California...
- The previous holder of those titles had sued him in 1982 for palimony; the action was dismissed two years later.
- A partner in a Boston law firm, he initially offered to pay him $72,000 palimony for 10 years, list him as the beneficiary of a $500,000 life insurance policy, and split equally the proceeds from selling their house.
- A long-term girlfriend lost a £3m palimony suit against him when their romance ended after almost two decades in 1993.
Origin
1970s: from pal + a shortened form of alimony.
Rhymes
- two fingers
- two-fisted
- twofold
- two-four
- two-handed
- two-handedly
- two-hander
- two heads are better than one
- two-horse
- two natures
- twoness
- twonk
- twoonie
- two (or three, four, etc.) of a kind
- two (or three) sheets to the wind
- twopence
- twopenn'orth
- twopenny
- twopenny-halfpenny
- two-phase
- two-piece
- two-ply
- two-pot screamer
- two's company, three's a crowd
- two-seater