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–noun

1.	a person, esp. 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; orig. uncert.

]

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pimp Audio Help   (pĭmp) Pronunciation Key
n.   One who finds customers for a prostitute; a procurer.

intr.v.   pimped, pimp·ing, pimps
To serve as a procurer of prostitutes.

[Origin unknown.]

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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.

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pimp
noun
1.	someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
verb
1.	arrange for sexual partners for others [syn: pander]

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Pimp

Pimp\ (p[i^]mp), n. [Cf. F. pimpant smart, sparkish; perh. akin to piper to pipe, formerly also, to excel. Cf. Pipe.] One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander. --Swift.

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Pimp

Pimp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pimped (p[i^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Pimping.] To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander. --Dryden.

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PIMP
peeing in my pants

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