What does sweetman mean?
Sweetman means (African-American Vernacular, dated) A male pimp..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(African-American Vernacular, dated) A male pimp..
He recalled the colored sweetmen and touts and girls with whom he had been familiar in America, some who lived in the great obscure region of the boundary between white and black.
They needed whores, pimps, the sweetmen; bistros, honky-tonks, spider-nests; the perverse, the perverted, the psychopathic.
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Sweetman means (African-American Vernacular, dated) A male pimp..
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He recalled the colored sweetmen and touts and girls with whom he had been familiar in America, some who lived in the great obscure region of the boundary between white and black.
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