father-out-law
English
editEtymology
editFrom father + -out-law, by analogy to father-in-law.
Noun
editfather-out-law (plural fathers-out-law)
- The father of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
- The father of any of one's friends.
- The father of one's ex-spouse.
- 2017, Josephine Sharoni, chapter 4, in Lacan and Fantasy Literature: Portents of Modernity in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction[2] (Psychology), →ISBN, 0THUAQAAQBAJ, page 57:
- In the absence of the father in his role as father-in-law to Malone, the would be son-in-law comes under the direction of another father figure, the scientist Challenger, who rather than a substitute father-in-law can more pertinently be seen as a father-out-law.
- 2017, Josephine Sharoni, chapter 4, in Lacan and Fantasy Literature: Portents of Modernity in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction[3] (Psychology), →ISBN, 0THUAQAAQBAJ, page 117:
- With this exit of the normal father, the would-be son-in-law ends up in the hands of a kind of father-out-law;, Challenger whose science will lead the young man to the fantasy space and the king of the ape-men.