mackerel
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈmækɹəl/
Noun

mackerel (plural mackerels or mackerel)

  1. An edible fish of the family Scombridae, often speckled.
Translations Noun

mackerel (plural mackerels)

  1. (obsolete) A pimp; also, a bawd.
    • 1483, William Caxton, Magnus Cato, quoted in James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, vol. 2, publ. by John Russell Smith (1847), page 536.
      […] nyghe his hows dwellyd a maquerel or bawde […]
    • 1980, The Police Journal, Volume 53 (page 257) (also available at Google books ↗)
      NETTING MACKEREL: THE PIMP DETAIL
    • 2006, Paul Crowley, Message-ID: in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
      A procurer or a pimp is a broker (or broker-between), a mackerel, or a pandar; the last is not necessarily-and, indeed, not usually-a professional.
    • 2009, Jeffery Klaehn, Roadblocks to Equality, ISBN 1551643162, (page 118)
      You can't 'work' in a legal brothel without mackerel.
    • 2012, J. Robert Janes, Mayhem, ISBN 9049985157,
      Perhaps, but my sources think the mackerel knew of this girl but she didn't know of him.



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