Slang names for souteneur

What are some common slang names for the souteneur - the illicit "manager" for prostitutes?

I'm fairly sure there are a few, but I can't find any in the common online resources and I need it for a fiction story - souteneur sounds way too 'official'.

Solution 1:

Perhaps there's a subtlety here I missed, but "pimp" is a common word (too common perhaps to be slang?).

Similarly "panderer" or "procurer", though "pimp" is more easily understood as claiming exclusive marketing rights.

Solution 2:

Souteneur is French. Its first meaning in French is supporter or backer. Its second meaning is the one you allude to. The more common name for this in French is maquereau, or just mack viz. Mack the Knife. (Maquerelle if it's a woman) and the legal word is proxénète. With just Google translate you should find the word you want.

Solution 3:

Ponce is another definition for someone in the business of prostitution.

Ponce: 1. a person, esp. a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usu. in return for a share of the earnings; procurer.

Source: Collins Dictionary

Solution 4:

Cadet: [slang] a procurer.

mack daddy: [slang] a conspicuously successful pimp.

fancy man: [slang] someone who procures customers for whores (In England they call a pimp a ponce).