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pimp

nomverbeadjectifnuméralcourant dans les dialogues

  • //pɪmp//

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

nom

  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

    argotA man who can easily attract women.

Étymologie

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”).

verbe

  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

    argotTo excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.

    You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.

  4. 4

    argotTo 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

    argotTo 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

    argotTo 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.

adjectif

  1. 1

    argotExcellent, fashionable, stylish.

numéral

  1. 1

    Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.

Étymologie

From Brythonic numerals, from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp. Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.

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