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How the flashy little mackerel become associated with pimps and prostitution.

Did you consider yourself a “mack” during your New Jack Swing phase in the early 1990’s? Did you wear your baggy jeans backwards and call yourself “daddy mack” like those kid rappers from Kris Kross? Well, I’m pretty sure you didn’t know back then, that this old euphemism for a pimp, might be based on a small fast swimming fish: the mackerel. So, how did this flashy little fish become associated…