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ponce
verb- to obtain something by poncing, usually money UK, 1938
- to live on the earnings of another’s prostitution; to act as a pimp (a prostitute’s manager) UK, 1932
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 89, 1996
- to scrounge; to sponge UK, 1915
A general sense of acquiring something for nothing extended from the previous sense. - [H]e was a right slag, what with never washing and ponsing [sic] dogend from morning to night. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 95, 1958
▶ go out poncing
(of the police) to search for pimps UK- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 58, 1996
▶ ponce off; ponce on
to live on the earnings of another’s prostitution, but not taking any active part in the trade UK, 1936- [H]e’d got nicked for ponceing [poncing] off his old woman who was a brass. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 8, 1958
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