broker n.1
1. a pimp.
[ | Eneados ‘Prologe’ Bk IV (1553) lxxiiii: Of brokaris and sic baudry hou suid I write [...] Sic pode makrellis, for Lucifer bene leche]. | |
A Knight’s Conjuring Ch. VI H1: Tell all the Brokers in Long-lane, Houns ditch, or else wher, with all the rest of their Colleagued Suburbians, that deal vpon ouer-worne commodities [...] that they lye safe enough. | ||
Marriage Broaker II ii: ’Tis not an hour since the old Placket-broaker Our neighbour Derrick sends for me to a tavern. | ||
Scoundrel’s Dict. 23: The Hue and Cry, to shun, we crept, / in Hedges where we lay’d. / To the Brokers then my Hedge-bird flies. |
2. (drugs) a go-between in a drug deal or in any illegal transaction.
Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 37: Broker. – A narcotic peddler ; the go-between who buys the drug from the man higher up, or who acts as the agent for a ‘ring,’ and sells, at high prices and in small lots, to the addict. | ||
Narcotics Lingo and Lore. | ||
Thief 333: They were the guys who supplied the pushers. The brokers. | ||
It Was An Accident 24: I was a broker one or two times. Make the intros you know? | ||
ONDCP Street Terms 4: Broker — Go between in a drug deal. |