English Explanatory Dictionary

pimp

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
  2. A man who can easily attract women.
verb
  1. To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  2. To prostitute someone.
  3. To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
  4. To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
  5. To promote, to tout.
  6. To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
adj
  1. Excellent, fashionable, stylish.
num
  1. Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.

Pronunciation

/pɪmp/ en-ca-pimp.oga

Word forms

pimp pimps pimping pimped

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

abbot bludger bully cock-bawd dalaal fishmonger flashman fleshmonger hoon hustler mackerel mack mack daddy muttonmonger nookie-bookie pandar pimp pussymonger ruffian souteneur sweetman whoreman whoremaster whoremonger procure hustle whore out dog out pander pimp out ponce prostitute punk whore pimp up mack out pitch promote spruik tout bewile convince abuse beglammer counterfeit deceive dissemble dissimulate feign jiff lead astray overreach put on spoof sham trick bring round convict draw gain over

Related words

trafficker white slaver prostitute prostitute's client pimping player playa madam

Derived words

gorilla pimp pimp cup pimpdom pimpery pimp hand pimphood pimpish pimpless pimplike pimpmobile pimpness pimpology pimpship pimp slap pimp-slap pimp steak pimp stick pimpy Romeo pimp sugar pimp superpimp pimp off pimp out pimp up unpimped
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