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Procurer   /proʊkjˈʊrər/   Listen
Procurer

noun
1.
Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).  Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce.
2.
Someone who obtains or acquires.  Synonym: securer.






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"Procurer" Quotes from Famous Books



... 3,000 piastres serait mise a la disposition du gouverneur, du secretaire d'Etat et de trois personnes nommees annuellement par le gouverneur et le senat, afin d'etre employee par eux ou par une majorite d'entre eux a procurer les curiosites que renferme la Louisiane, tant en objets d'art que de science ou autres, pour etablir avec les musees et les bibliotheques de l'Europe les premieres communications ...
— Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various

... prostitute. Everybody will know me and pay homage to me. Every German barber in New York will tell his patrons who my father is, and who I am, and what I live by, and whom I am running after. I shall become that worthless little fiend's lap dog, her monkey to perform tricks for her, her procurer. The German colonies in every city, large or small, that we visit will behold in me a typical example of the loathsome degree to which a scion of the German nobility can sink, into what a cesspool of vice a man who was once a good man, ...
— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann



Words linked to "Procurer" :   whoremaster, panderer, acquirer, England, whoremonger, procure, wrongdoer, procuress, offender



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