Meaning

Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
2. (African-American Vernacular, slang) A man who can easily attract women.
3. (intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
4. (transitive) To prostitute someone.
5. (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
6. (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).
7. (transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.
8. (US, slang) To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.

Example Sentences

"I'm not a whore. You're a pimp and a stupid American, and if you want to pick up a silly bitch on the street you'd better go back to the other side where you belong!"

A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore

All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record label

The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.

You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.

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.

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

The trendy rehabs being pimped by the addiction industry's glossy PR.

Word Forms

• pimps
• pimping
• pimped

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