Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
A bachelor. · A small hut, especially for a man living alone. · Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.
Abbreviation of bachelor (or, in later senses, of bachelor pad).
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