pimp.
Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
Meaning & usage
Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
A man who can easily attract women.
Where this word comes from
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).
To promote, to tout.
I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
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.
Where this word comes from
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.
Where this word comes from
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”).
Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.
Where this word comes from
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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