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  • white slaver
    white slaver
    noun
    a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • white-slaver
    white-slaver
    noun
    a person who procures or forces women to become prostitutes

white slaver

American  

noun

  1. a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.


white-slaver British  

noun

  1. a person who procures or forces women to become prostitutes

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of white slaver

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

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This disparity in size did not dispel the suspicions of one statuesque beauty named Grace Kelly who, when Goldberg first approached her, thought he was a white slaver.

From Time Magazine Archive

Consequently they went before a "Justice of the Peace," who pronounced them man and wife—a "fake" Justice, who was merely a confederate of the white slaver.

From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert)

"Twice," said the young man enthusiastically and without regard to our look of horror as we were moved by circumstantial evidence to believe him not only a white slaver but a dishonest one.

From Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams by Broun, Heywood

It was hot and the sawing bit raised quickly a white slaver.

From Winner Take All by Evans, Larry