pimp

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10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/pɪmp/

Definition of pimp

10 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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

  1. 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”
  2. (slang)A man who can easily attract women.

verb

  1. (intransitive)To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  2. (transitive)To prostitute someone.
    “The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.”
  3. (slang, transitive)To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
    “You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.”
  4. (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.”
  5. (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.”
  6. (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

  1. (slang)Excellent, fashionable, stylish.

num

  1. 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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