pimp
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Definition of pimp
10 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
“"I'm not a whore. You're a pimp and a stupid American, and if you want to pick up a silly bitch on the street you'd better go back to the other side where you belong!"”
“A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore”
“All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record label”
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noun
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Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
“"I'm not a whore. You're a pimp and a stupid American, and if you want to pick up a silly bitch on the street you'd better go back to the other side where you belong!"”
“A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore”
“All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record label”
- (slang)A man who can easily attract women.
verb
- (intransitive)To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
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(transitive)To prostitute someone.
“The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.”
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(slang, transitive)To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
“You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.”
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(slang, transitive)To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
“Only an attending physician can pimp a chief resident; the chief resident and attending can pimp a junior resident; they all three can pimp an intern.”
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(US, slang, transitive)To promote, to tout.
“I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.”
“The trendy rehabs being pimped by the addiction industry's glossy PR.”
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(US, slang)To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
“I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas.”
adj
- (slang)Excellent, fashionable, stylish.
num
- Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“a boy, a youth, a young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “a solicitor”).
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