English

Noun

pimp ‎(plural pimps)

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

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Verb

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 f'real, dawg.

4. (transitive, medicine, slang) To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of 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.

5. (transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.

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

6. (slang) 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.

Synonyms

• (promote, tout): pitch, promote, tout, spruik

Derived terms

• pimp off
• pimp out
• pimp up

Translations

Adjective

pimp

1. (slang) excellent, fashionable, stylish

See also

• pimping adj
• player
• playah

See also

• madam

External links

• Double-Tongued Dictionary definition

Etymology 2

From Celtic numerals. Cognate with Welsh pump

Numeral

pimp

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

See also

• (Borrowdale sheep counting) yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick, yan-a-dick, tyan-a-dick, tethera-a-dick, methera-a-dick, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tyan-a-bumfit, tethera-a-bumfit, methera-bumfit, giggot

References

• Wright, Peter (1995) Cumbrian Chat, Dalesman Publishing Company, ISBN 185-568-092-0, page 7
• Deakin, Michael A.B. (2007), Leigh-Lancaster, David, editor, The Name of the Number, Australian Council for Educational Research, ISBN 0864317573, page 75
• Varvogli, Aliki (2002) Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide, Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 0826452337, pages 24-25

Anagrams

• impp.