cupboard love

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   a show of affection motivated by selfishness

   Broaderkindness

Questions about cupboard love

What does cupboard love mean?

cupboard love means "a show of affection motivated by selfishness".

Is cupboard love a common word?

cupboard love is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.