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[leslie]

Hi,

What do you call a man who has many girlfriends at the same time or who changes his partners very often? Any idioms, adjective descriptions or noun/noun phrases to express this?

Thank you very much for your help!

Leslie
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[hitori2k6]

Leslie,

In regard to your question, yes, playboy and fickle are correct
terms.

Except in how they are used. You would say "He is a real
playboy, isn't he?" Or "I saw him with another girl yesterday.
He certainly is fickle".

In American slang, we also have the term "player". This
means the same thing. The usage would be "He's quite a
player, don't you think...?"

Maybe another expression might be "smooth operator".
But you'd want to be careful about this term as there
are subtle differences between it and "playboy", "player"
and "fickle".

I hope this helps.

Hitori2k6

[LucentShade]

Some of these may be obsolete or offensive...

player, playa, Don Juan (also DJ), Mack Daddy, womanizer, cad, manwh0re, man$lut, ladies' man..and probably many more.