sweetman

sweetman (plural sweetmen)

1. (African-American Vernacular, dated) A male pimp.
   • 1929, Claude McKay, Banjo: A story without a plot:

     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.

   • 1939, J. Saunders Redding, To Make a Poet Black, page 119:

     They needed whores, pimps, the sweetmen; bistros, honky-tonks, spider-nests; the perverse, the perverted, the psychopathic.

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