the stepford wives

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Definition of the stepford wives in English English dictionary

{i} 1972 novel written by Ira Levin (in which the men of Stepford replaced their wives with robots)

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Stepford Wives

a horror film based on a book by Ira Levin, about a group of married women in a US village whose husbands secretly replace them with robots. The robots look exactly like the women, but they are designed to be interested only in cooking, cleaning their houses, and pleasing their husbands in every way. The phrase is sometimes used to describe women who behave in this way (1975)