pimp
noun
- agent for prostitutes
verb
- act as a pimp, selling the sexual service of prostitutes (or metaphorical extension)
- embellish with amazing, outrageous and stylish features/decorations
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /pɪmp/
adj
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”).
- Excellent, fashionable, stylish.
noun
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”).
- 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”
- A man who can easily attract women.
num
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.
- Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.
verb
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”).
- To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
- To prostitute someone.
“The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.”
- To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
“You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.”