as in pimp
a man who solicits clients for a woman who is willing to engage in sexual activities for money
an arrest record that revealed that he had variously been a pander, a pickpocket, and a drug dealer
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pimp
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Ranch hands and migrant farmers arrived in the eighteen-hundreds, followed by bootleggers, bartenders, drug runners, and pimps.—
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025 -
The case started on July 1, when a man called police to report three pimps were holding his girlfriend against her will at a hotel on Hegenberger Road in East Oakland.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
22 July 2025
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“Pander.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pander. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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