ten percenter

ten percenter

1. An agent, as for an athlete or actor, who is paid 10% of their client's earnings. I was sick of those parasitic ten percenters getting paid for my hard work, so I decided to start representing myself.
2. A joke that only 10% of the audience will understand. Don't include a ten percenter like that in your routine, John. It will grind the pace of your entire show to a halt.
See also: ten
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

ten percenter

n. an agent who collects 10 percent. I’ve been supporting that ten percenter for years, and he was robbing me blind.
See also: ten
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • pay as you go
  • pay for
  • paid
  • paid-up
  • be hard up
  • be hard up for something
  • (there is) no problem with that
  • be money for jam
  • be out of pocket
  • be in/out of pocket
References in periodicals archive
Mendes, 48, is no ordinary Mr Ten Percenter - he is becoming the man who runs football.
Well-nigh omnipresent in the Italian press and on TV, constantly citing "close personal friends" like George Clooney and Robert De Niro, Veltroni (who's tipped as a future Italian prime minister) often seemed more like a ten percenter than a civic official, and frequently threatened to edge the fest's actual director, Giorgio Grossetti, out of the picture altogether.
I would suggest that if in fact such countervailing forces can be created and develop enough political clout both in civil society and in the political system to force significant changes, it will come about through combining the anger being generated in the 90 percent with a growing realization in part of the one and ten percenters that the path they have been following is inevitably leading to a popular backlash that will result in a cataclysmic social and political upheaval from both the extreme left and the extreme right.
In 2013, 3.4 percent of entering students were African American Ten Percenters, while an additional 1.2 percent were African Americans admitted for diversity purposes.
Rather than an invisible individual sitting on high and being glorified while he haphazardly doles out blessings and curses, the "True and Living God" is actually a multitude of poor righteous teachers who, as a result of their enlightenment, are charged with battling ten percenters and also, and more importantly, with enlightening and "civilizing" "eighty-fivers" and thereby creating even more Gods.
Consequently, after invoking Nimrod to facilitate the destruction of ten percenters, The RZA takes the Christmas tree back to it pagan roots, so to speak, but with a twist: He decorates the tannenbaum with the heads of vanquished ten percenters.
Peter Tosh is even more forthright when in the third verse he compares Christianity to a con game designed to obfuscate the fact that "Almighty God is a living man." (74) Not only does Tosh make it clear that he is not fooled, but his lyrics serve as a wake-up call to his audience who may have been lulled to sleep by the lies of ten percenters and by the mewling of eighty-fivers.
In November, the use of Members' mailings (ten percenters) to ridings became a highly contentious issue.
(2) Over the decades, as a large number of rival official European companies (including the numerous "ten percenters") entered the coastal trade, the coast increasingly crystallised into a "frontier of opportunity".
Ten Percenters also strive to control shooting lanes.
Ten Percenters spend time thinking through shots they are likely to face during the season.