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sweetman

sweetman noun: a male pimp.

Noun

sweetman (plural sweetmen)

  1. (dated, African-American Vernacular) 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.1929, Claude McKay, Banjo: A story without a plot
    • They needed whores, pimps, the sweetmen; bistros, honky-tonks, spider-nests; the perverse, the perverted, the psychopathic.1939, J. Saunders Redding, To Make a Poet Black, page 119

Proper noun capitalized: Sweetman

Sweetman (plural Sweetmans)

  1. A surname.

Forms of sweetman

Noun
pluralsweetmen
Proper noun
pluralSweetmans

Words formed from sweetman

Questions about sweetman

What does sweetman mean?
Sweetman means a male pimp.
What part of speech is sweetman?
Sweetman can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of sweetman?
The plural of sweetman is sweetmen.

Words near sweetman in the dictionary

  1. sweetlips
  2. sweetly
  3. sweetmaker
  4. sweetmakers
  5. sweetmaking
  6. sweetman
  7. Sweetmans
  8. Sweetmans Creek
  9. sweetmeal
  10. sweetmeat
  11. sweetmeats

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