FANCY MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fancy man mean? 

• FANCY MAN (noun)
  The noun FANCY MAN has 2 senses:

1. someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

2. a woman's lover

  Familiarity information: FANCY MAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FANCY MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fancy man; pandar; pander; panderer; pimp; ponce; procurer

Hypernyms ("fancy man" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fancy man"):

procuress (a woman pimp)

whoremaster; whoremonger (a pimp who procures whores)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A woman's lover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fancy man; paramour

Hypernyms ("fancy man" is a kind of...):

lover (a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage)