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Pimping
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noun
1.
a person, especially a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings; pander; procurer.
2.
a despicable person.
3.
Australia and New Zealand. an informer; stool pigeon.
verb (used without object)
4.
to act as a pimp.
verb (used with object)
5.
to act as a pimp for.
6.
to exploit.
Origin:
1630–40; origin uncertain
1630–40; origin uncertain
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
pimp
1607, perhaps from M.Fr. pimper "to dress elegantly" (16c.), prp. of pimpant "alluring in dress, seductive." Weekley suggests M.Fr. pimpreneau, defined in Cotgrave (1611) as "a knave, rascall, varlet, scoundrell." The word also means "informer, stool pigeon" in Australia and New Zealand and in S.Africa,
EXPANDwhere by early 1960s it existed in Swahili form impimpsi. The verb is attested from 1636. Pimpmobile first recorded 1973.
COLLAPSE
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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