MILF

noun

ˈmilf 

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

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Also, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards plays a MILF. —Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024

In particular, the 2015 Mamasapano massacre, in which Islamist rebels allegedly slaughtered 44 policemen during a botched counterterrorism operation, undercut public support for peace negotiations with the group responsible for the massacre, MILF. —Richard Javad Heydarian, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2017

The couple now has two children, daughter Isla and son Frederick. 06 of 09 John Cho's Wife, Kerri Higuchi John Cho ('MILF Guy'), now 52, and fellow actor Kerri Higuchi married in 2006, during her stint on Grey's Anatomy. —Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024

Both Efron and King’s characters just want Kidman to be a supportive mother type: One as her actual mom, and the other as a MILF. —Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 27 June 2024

Word History

Etymology

mother I'd like to fuck

First Known Use

1992, in the meaning defined above