variants or less commonly milf
plural MILFs also milfs
informal
: a sexually attractive older woman and especially one who has children
My mother was a MILF. When she'd drop my older brother to high school, he'd get admiring looks from other boys, impressed not only by his hot older "girlfriend" but that she had a car. Mia Freedman
Don't know what MILF means? Don't look it up unless you're OK with profanity. Let's just say it's a reference to attractive older women and leave it at that. Michele Kayal
When Instagram users called her a "certified milf" and "hot mama," the expectant star replied, "Hahahaha gee thanks." Riley Cardoza
[Jessica] Porter suggests that "we milfs"—using "milfs" rather loosely, because she doesn't have kids, just a book to sell—"have been waiting for the last two thousand years to get our sexuality back". V. J. D. Smith

Examples of MILF in a Sentence

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Of the spate of New MILF Cinema films that have come out recently, perhaps nothing holds more allure than the prospect of Boy King Timothée Chalamet getting it on onscreen with Super Mom Gwyneth Paltrow in the Josh Safdie–directed Marty Supreme. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025 Seventeen years after Jack Donaghy greenlit MILF Island, portrayer Alec Baldwin is getting in business with the network behind MILF Manor. Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 27 Jan. 2025

Word History

Etymology

mother I'd like to fuck

First Known Use

1992, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of MILF was in 1992

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“MILF.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/MILF. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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