Pimp

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /pɪmp/
• Rhymes: -ɪmp

Origin unknown. Compare French pimpant ("smart, sparkish")

Full definition of pimp

Noun

1. A person who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer.
2. (African American Vernacular English slang) A man who can easily attract women.

Derived terms

• pimpdom
• pimphood
• pimpness
• pimpship
• pimp slap, pimp-slap

Verb

1. (intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
2. (transitive) To prostitute someone.The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
3. (transitive, US, African American Vernacular English) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).You pimped out that AC (air conditioner) f'real (for real), dawg.
4. (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).
• 2004, Robert A. Blume, Arthur W. Combs, The Continuing American Revolution: A Psychological Perspective, page 183Only 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. (transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
6. (slang) To 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.

Synonyms

• (promote, tout) pitch, promote, tout, spruik

Derived terms

• pimp off
• pimp out
• pimp up

Adjective

adjective

1. (slang) excellent, fashionable, stylish

From numerals. Cognate with Welsh pump

Numeral

1. (Cumbrian and Old Welsh dialects) five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

Anagrams

• impp.