pimp

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Singular
pimp

Plural
pimps

pimp (plural pimps)

  1. A person who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer.
  2. (African American Vernacular slang) A man who can easily attract women.
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Infinitive
to pimp

Third person singular
pimps

Simple past
pimped

Past participle
pimped

Present participle
pimping

to pimp (third-person singular simple present pimps, present participle pimping, simple past and past participle pimped)

  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. (transitive, US, African American Vernacular) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).
    You pimped out that AC (air conditioner) f'real (for real), dawg.
  4. (transitive, medicine, slang) To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (by a senior member of the medical staff).
    • 2004, Robert A. Blume, Arthur W. Combs, The Continuing American Revolution: A Psychological Perspective, page 183
      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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From Celtic numerals.

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pimp

  1. (Cumbrian and Old Welsh dialectal) five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

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