slang
as in pimp
a man who solicits clients for a woman who is willing to engage in sexual activities for money the hooker claims she turned all her dough in to her cadet last night

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Recent Examples of cadet Guards, many of them teenage cadets from police academies, are reportedly ordered to humiliate and brutalize detainees, some barely older than themselves. Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025 While two cadets remain hospitalized in stable condition in the city, seven officers and 172 cadets arrived at the Mexican naval school in Veracruz on Monday morning. David Matthews, New York Daily News, 19 May 2025 Named after the last Aztec emperor, who was executed by the Spanish conquerors in 1525, it was built in Spain in 1981 and acquired by the Mexican Navy to train cadets and officers. Michelle Watson, CNN Money, 19 May 2025 The Context The Cuauhtémoc, a 297-foot-long sailing vessel that first launched in 1982, is a sailing vessel used primarily for training Mexican naval cadets and typically makes international goodwill voyages to various ports. Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for cadet
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pimp
Noun
  • Boyega plays an average dude who gets shot one night in his neighborhood but wakes up the next day, somewhat startling the pimp (Foxx) and prostitute (Parris) who saw him get gunned down.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 5 May 2025
  • This term was derived from bawd, which referred to someone who encouraged immoral or promiscuous behavior, particularly a procuress or pimp.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024

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“Cadet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadet. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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