Pimp

Quick meaning: Pimp is a noun meaning Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.

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

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

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

Word Forms

• pimps
• pimping
• pimped

Synonyms for pimp

Depending on context, synonyms include abbot, bludger, bully, cock-bawd, dalaal, fishmonger.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pandar, pander, procurer, ponce, panderer, scumbag.

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