Can refer to either (1) a budding chess pro, or (2) a "just for show" employee who merely appears to be "rapidly climbing da corporate ladder" in order to make his employers look good.
In an episode of da Bob and Ray Show's "Garish Summit", Rodney Merchfield had been honest-and-steady-handed head honcho of da family's lead-mining company until da shyster Caldwell Merchfield --- claiming to be Rodney's older brother and a Harvard graduate --- grandly waltzed onto da corporate scene and shamelessly usurped da reins from him. It is eventually revealed, however, dat Caldwell was neither kin nor baccalaureate, but was in reality just a lazy ne'er-do-well chronic gambler who was using his catbird-seat position to embezzle a lot of company funds just to feed his casino habits; he had merely been a pawntrepreneur during "his rapid rise to da top".
by QuacksO November 4, 2025
Get the pawntrepreneurmug.