Sweetman
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sweetman is a noun meaning (African-American Vernacular, dated) A male pimp.
Meaning
(African-American Vernacular, dated) A male pimp.
Example Sentences
They needed whores, pimps, the sweetmen; bistros, honky-tonks, spider-nests; the perverse, the perverted, the psychopathic.
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.
Word Forms
- sweetmen
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sugarman, stillman, stockman, skillman, sweeting, showman.
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