whoremaster
nounEtymology From earlier hore-maister, equivalent to whore + master.
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Derogatory A man who uses the services of prostitutes.
- Noiselessly the fat whoremaster glided across the floor. Jimmy Earls the brothel creeper.2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 166:
2
A pimp.
3
Figuratively An exploiter of people.
- a. 2000, Dale Brown, quoted in Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports by Andrew Zimbalist This one-billion-dollar TV contract is the paramount example of the injustices in the game. Look at the money we make off predominately poor black kids. We're the whoremasters.
- Derived terms
- whoremasterly