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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World English Dictionary
pimp1 (pɪmp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a man who solicits for a prostitute or brothel and lives off the earnings |
| 2. | a man who procures sexual gratification for another; procurer; pander |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (intr) to act as a pimp |
| [C17: of unknown origin] | |
| pimp2 (pɪmp) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a spy or informer |
| —vb (often foll by on) | |
| 2. | to inform (on) |
| [of unknown origin] | |
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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,
where by early 1960s it existed in Swahili form impimpsi. The verb is attested from 1636. Pimpmobile first recorded 1973.
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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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
| PIMP peeing in my pants |
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
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Example sentences
The ultimate celebrity status symbol might be having a guy on retainer who can pimp your ride.
Maybe, but that's a far cry from being an online pimp.
Set anyone to the right song and they come off looking pimp.
Writers can afford to pimp for extreme measures because no one holds them responsible.
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