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pimp

/pɪmp/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
  2. A man who can easily attract women.
  3. To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  4. To prostitute someone.
  5. To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).
  6. To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
  7. To promote, to tout.
  8. To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
  9. Excellent, fashionable, stylish
  10. Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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