Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A whoremonger.
  • noun A pimp.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who keeps or procures whores for others; a pimp; a procurer; hence, one who practises lewdness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.
  • noun One keeps or procures whores for others; a pimp; a procurer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun pejorative A man who uses services rendered by whores.
  • noun pimp
  • noun An exploiter of people.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a pimp who procures whores
  • noun a prostitute's customer

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Examples

  • Instead of evil's banality, Mr. Cooper gives us the elation generated by Uday's unmoored id as he plucks innocent schoolgirls off a Baghdad street, defiles a bride on her wedding day or slaughters his father's whoremaster in a delirium of displaced rage.

    Smart, Patchy, Sweet 'Crazy, Stupid, Love' Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • What must it do to a sweet young bride to find herself married to a whoremaster?

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • What must it do to a sweet young bride to find herself married to a whoremaster?

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • Would that Brown were a drug-pushing whoremaster with administrative ability.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • What must it do to a sweet young bride to find herself married to a whoremaster?

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • A whoremaster turned gunrunner who nearly burned the city.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • A whoremaster turned gunrunner who nearly burned the city.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • This vice ([6090] saith mine author) is so common with us in France, that he is of no account, a mere coward, not worthy the name of a soldier, that is not a notorious whoremaster.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Verse makes a eunuch or a whoremaster of them all.

    The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

  • Amat wondered in passing if the whoremaster would ever understand how much that mark had cost him.

    A Shadow in Summer 2006

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