pimp

noun

1. 1

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

   "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

2. 2

   slangA man who can easily attract women.

verb

1. 1

   To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.

2. 2

   To prostitute someone.

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

3. 3

   slangTo excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.

   You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.

4. 4

   slangTo ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).

   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.

5. 5

   slangTo promote, to tout.

   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.

6. 6

   slangTo 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.

adjective

1. 1

   slangExcellent, fashionable, stylish.

numeral

1. 1

   Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.

Forms

plural

pimps

past tense

pimped

past participle

pimped

present participle

pimping

third person singular

pimps