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pimp

noun
/pɪmp/

Etymology

From Brythonic numerals, from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp. Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.

  1. borrowed from Pimpf — “a boy, a youth, a young squirt”
  2. derived from pimpant — “smart, sparkish”

Definitions

  1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of…

    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. A man who can easily attract women.

  3. To act as a procurer of prostitutes

    To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. To prostitute someone.

      • The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.

    2. To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.

      • You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.

    3. To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or…

      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.

    4. 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.

    5. 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.

    6. Excellent, fashionable, stylish.

    7. Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.

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Derived

gorilla pimp, pimp cup, pimpdom, pimpery, pimp hand, pimphood, pimpish, pimpless, pimplike, pimpmobile, pimpness, pimpology, pimpship, pimp slap, pimp-slap, pimp steak, pimp stick, pimpy, Romeo pimp, sugar pimp, superpimp, pimp off, pimp out, pimp up, unpimped

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pimp. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA