Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who finds customers for a prostitute; a procurer.
- intransitive verb To serve as a procurer of prostitutes.
- intransitive verb To compromise one's principles, especially in promoting the interests of another, for personal gain.
- intransitive verb To customize or adorn, often garishly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To provide for others the means of gratifying lust; pander.
- noun A small bavin. See the quotation.
- noun One who provides others with the means and opportunity of gratifying their lusts; a pander.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.
- intransitive verb To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
five in Cumbrian and Welshsheep counting - noun A person who
solicits customers forprostitution and acts as manager forprostitutes ; apanderer . - noun A man who can easily attract women.
- verb intransitive To act as a procurer of
prostitutes ; topander . - verb transitive To
prostitute someone. - verb transitive, US, African American Vernacular To excessively
customize something, especially a vehicle, according toghetto standards (alsopimp out ). - verb 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).
- verb transitive, US, slang To promote, to
tout . - verb slang To
persuade , smooth talk ortrick another into doing something for yourbenefit . - adjective slang excellent, fashionable, stylish
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb arrange for sexual partners for others
- noun someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cooper, who coined the term "pimp culture," explained how the pimp becomes the "daddy, the husband."
Marcia G. Yerman: Women in the World: Stories and Solutions Summit 2011 Marcia G. Yerman 2011
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Cooper, who coined the term "pimp culture," explained how the pimp becomes the "daddy, the husband."
Marcia G. Yerman: Women in the World: Stories and Solutions Summit 2011 Marcia G. Yerman 2011
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Cooper, who coined the term "pimp culture," explained how the pimp becomes the "daddy, the husband."
Marcia G. Yerman: Women in the World: Stories and Solutions Summit 2011 Marcia G. Yerman 2011
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Cooper, who coined the term "pimp culture," explained how the pimp becomes the "daddy, the husband."
Marcia G. Yerman: Women in the World: Stories and Solutions Summit 2011 Marcia G. Yerman 2011
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I'm no prude by a long shot, but the term pimp when used in the context of 'improving' something really needs to go.
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It was black, except for the word pimp printed in white letters.
A-J Phoebe McPhee 2002
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"He would get it and just take it to the bank, or go and hang out at what they call pimp parties."
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Barbee allegedly beat the women with a leather riding crop, which he called his "pimp hand," prosecutors said.
The Seattle Times 2011
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What might surpirise you, "pimp," is how many people agree with her wholeheartedly.
Sound Politics: Rahm Emanuel should resign for flirting with underage candidates 2006
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Fox News/Saudi-royals conservative pimp is a felon!
uselessness commented on the word pimp
Another example of negative words being colloquially flipped on their heads for positive use. It's a strange phenomenon, but I'd say it's a bad one. And by bad I mean good. ;-)
September 17, 2007
yarb commented on the word pimp
I know the great: they reckon nothing upon the zeal and attachment of a real friend; but only care for pimping sycophants.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 15
September 12, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word pimp
5 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan
September 26, 2008
yarb commented on the word pimp
Citation on son of a bitch.
January 14, 2022