candyman n.
1. (US) a dandy.
DN IV:i 16: candyman. A dandy fellow; a stylish, showy person. [...] ‘He’s quite a candyman’. | ‘Terms of Approbation And Eulogy’ in
2. (US black) a woman’s male partner or (illicit) lover.
🎵 Well all you ladies gather ’round / That good sweet Candy man’s in town / He’s got a stick of candy / Just nine inch long. | ‘Candy Man Blues’||
🎵 If you can’t be my candy man, you can’t be my man at all. | ‘Candy Man’||
🎵 Pretty lady ain’t got no friend / till the Candyman come round again. | ‘Candy Man’||
[song title] The Candy Man. |
3. (drugs) a drug dealer.
Drugs from A to Z (1970). | ||
Cop Team 67: He had chased the ‘candy man’ – the deliverer of the narcotics – into the grocery store. | ||
(con. c.1967) Firefight 148: ‘Whose the candy man?’ [...] ‘Uncle Ho,’ Amaro said. | ||
Sydney Morn. Herald 1 Feb. 1/5: He was a ‘real candyman’ who used to trade in gram ‘bags’ of amphetamines. | ||
Inter-zone.org 🌐 Some became the Candy Man slinging weed and acid, others a little older perhaps and better set up got store fronts. | ‘Tying Off’ on||
‘Soul Collection’ in ThugLit July-Aug. [ebook] [A] pharmacist paying off his debt by falsifying narcotic orders—our candy man. | ||
Bobby March Will Live Forever 269: ‘How’s about we go upstairs and see what the candyman done brought the children?’. |
4. (US black) a pimp.
Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |
5. (N.Z. prison) a prison psychiatrist.
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 37/1: candyman, the n. the prison psychiatrist. |
6. (US) a man who pursues underage young people for sex.
Queer Street 304: Give me an old geezer so long as he’s sweet / And not a candyman or chickenhawk. | ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in