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pimp

/pɪmp/

noun

Meaning

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

  • A man who can easily attract women.

verb

Meaning

  • To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.

  • To prostitute someone.

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

  • To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).

    "You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg."

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

  • To promote, to tout.

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

  • 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

pitch,
promote,
spruik,
tout,
hustle,
whore out

adjective

Meaning

  • Excellent, fashionable, stylish