Pimp

//pɪmp// adj, noun, num, verb, slang

adj, noun, num, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

    "A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore"

  2. 2
    someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) wordnet
  3. 3
    A man who can easily attract women. slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. intransitive
  2. 2
    arrange for sexual partners for others wordnet
  3. 3
    To prostitute someone. transitive

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

  4. 4
    To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle. slang, transitive

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

  5. 5
    To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff). slang, transitive

    "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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  1. 6
    To promote, to tout. US, slang, transitive

    "I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers."

  2. 7
    To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit. US, slang

    "I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Excellent, fashionable, stylish. slang
Numeral
  1. 1
    Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.

Synonyms

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procurepandarpanderpanderpimp out;

Example

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"I found out that he was a pimp."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“boy, youth, young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “solicitor”).

Etymology 2

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.

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