pimp

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[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Noun

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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[edit] Translations
prostitution solicitor

[edit] Verb

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.
    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.

[edit] Translations
to act as procurer of prostitutes

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[edit] Etymology 2

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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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