Mackerel : not. m. (or macro). the mackerel is a fish fusiform with a gray-blue back striped with black, which lives in benches.
Man who lives off the prostitution of women.
The use of this word comes from the legend of mackerel serving for their females as "matchmakers" to herring.
Pimp; matchmaker, who introduces courtesan to prospective client; owner of a brothel; who lives at the expense of others; the one who pays the bitch.
Mackerel-Beau: Quality pimp.
Child who heads greedily.
Jack at card game.
Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches dit Céline (1894-1961) “There are hardly more than two species of men, anywhere and in anything, they are the workers and the pimps. " in Interviews with Professor Y .
Quote by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1917-2014): "The immortal Castorina who died God knew when who had climbed the miserable steps of the river pier to the sacred throne of a great madam, a pirate's bandeau on her eye lost during a fight in a canteen. " in Memory of my sad whores (2004)