Surrogate Boyfriend

1. for a female, a male friend who takes the place of a boyfriend when she is single. generally speaking, a close male friend who is there emotionally, but is not receiving physical pleasure from the relationship.

2. a close male friend a girl goes to for emotional support when she is single.
troy – so dave, candice came over to your place last night to talk huh?
dave – yeah.
troy – you do realize you’re her surrogate boyfriend, right?
dave – dude, no way.
troy – totally way. she comes over, cries on your shoulder, hangs out, asks your opinion ’bout stuff. and you don’t even make out with her? total surrogate.
dave – whatever.
troy – and once she has a boyfriend she’ll stop coming to you.

(6 months later)

troy – see, candice is now going out with jason and she’s stopped coming to you.
dave – i was totally whipped.

(elsewhere)

leslie – candice, you’re so lucky you had dave while you and tommy were broken up.
candice – yeah, he was a good surrogate boyfriend. but i have jason now so i’m able to go to him, my real boyfriend, when i have problems or wanna hang out.
a male friend that a girl uses as her pretend boyfriend to get away from an annoying guy in a club or bar situation when she is single or her significant other is not present.
amanda: oh no, this annoying guy keeps following me around trying to talk to me, could you be my surrogate boyfriend for a minute?
john: sure, let me just hold your hand for a minute till he walks past and hopefully he gets the point.
a single woman with a male child who treats the child in a manner one would treat a boyfriend.
tiffany’s son is running things like he is her boyfriend! i guess he is her surrogate boyfriend.