pimp

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pɪmp/, X-SAMPA: /pImp/
• Rhymes: -ɪmp

Etymology 1

Compare French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”)

Noun

pimp (plural pimps)

1. A person who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer.
2. (African American Vernacular slang) A man who can easily attract women.

Derived terms

• pimp slap, pimp-slap

Translations

prostitution solicitor

• Afrikaans: pooier (af), hoerboer (af)
• Arabic: قواد (ar) (qawwá:d) m
• Armenian: կավատ (hy) (kavat)
• Azeri: oğraş (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皮條客 (cmn), 皮条客 (cmn) (pítiáokè), 老鴇 (cmn), 老鸨 (cmn) (lǎobǎo) f

• Czech: pasák (cs) m
• Danish: alfons (da)
• Dutch: pooier (nl)
• Finnish: sutenööri (fi), parittaja (fi)
• French: souteneur (fr), maquereau (fr) m, mac (fr) m, proxénète (fr)
• Georgian: მამაშა (ka) (mamaša)
• German: Zuhälter (de) m, Lude (de) m
• Greek: προαγωγός (el) (proagogόs) m
• Hungarian: strici (hu)
• Icelandic: melludólgur (is) m, hórumangari (is) m
• Indonesian: germo (id), mucikari (id)
• Irish: máistir striapach (ga) m
• Italian: magnaccia (it), pappone (it), protettore (it), ruffiano (it), lenone (it)
• Japanese: 紐 (ja) (himo)

• Jèrriais: maquereau m
• Korean: 뚜쟁이 (ko) (ddujaengi), 뚜 (ko) (ddu)
• Latin: lēnō (la) m
• Norwegian: hallik (no) m
• Persian: جاکش (fa) (jakesh), کس‌کش (fa) (koskesh)
• Polish: alfons (pl) m, sutener (pl)
• Portuguese: cafetão (pt) m (Brazil), proxeneta (pt) m, safado (pt) m, chulo (pt) m
• Romanian: proxenet (ro) m, pește (ro) m
• Russian: сутенёр (ru) (sutenjór) m, сводник (ru) (svódnik) m, сводня (ru) (svódnja) f
• Scottish Gaelic: drùisear (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сводник (sh), пословодник (sh)

  Roman: svodnik (sh), poslovodnik (sh)

• Slovak: pasák (sk)
• Slovene: zvodník (sl)
• Spanish: chulo (es) m, golfo (es) m, cafiche (es) m, proxeneta (es), cabrón (es) m
• Swahili: buzi (sw)
• Swedish: hallick (sv), sutenör (sv) c
• Telugu: తార్పుడుగాడు (te) (taarpuDugaaDu)
• Turkish: pezevenk (tr)

Verb

pimp (third-person singular simple present pimps, present participle pimping, simple past and past participle pimped)

1. (intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
2. (transitive) To prostitute someone.

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

3. (transitive, US, African American Vernacular) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).

   You pimped out that AC (air conditioner) f'real (for real), dawg.

4. (transitive, medicine, slang) To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
   • 2004, Robert A. Blume, Arthur W. Combs, The Continuing American Revolution: A Psychological Perspective, page 183

     Only an attending physician can pimp a chief resident; the chief resident and attending can pimp a junior resident; they all three can pimp an intern.

5. (transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.

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

6. (slang) 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

• (promote, tout): pitch, promote, tout, spruik

Derived terms

• pimp off
• pimp out
• pimp up

Translations

to act as procurer of prostitutes

• Arabic: قاد (ar) (qāda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拉皮條 (cmn), 拉皮条 (cmn) (lā pítiáo), 拉客 (cmn) (lākè)

• Finnish: parittaa (fi), toimia sutenöörinä (fi)
• Greek: εκπορνεύω (el) (ekpornévo)
• Persian: کس‌کشی (fa) (koskeshi)

Adjective

pimp

1. (slang) excellent, fashionable, stylish

See also

• pimping a
• player
• playah

See also

• madam

External links

• Double-Tongued Dictionary definition

Etymology 2

Wikipedia

From Celtic numerals. Cognate with Welsh pump

Cardinal numeral

pimp

1. (Cumbrian and Old Welsh dialects) five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

See also

• (Borrowdale sheep counting) yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick, yan-a-dick, tyan-a-dick, tethera-a-dick, methera-a-dick, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tyan-a-bumfit, tethera-a-bumfit, methera-bumfit, giggot

References

• [1995], Peter Wright, Cumbrian Chat, Dalesman Publishing Company, ISBN 185-568-092-0, page 7:
• [2007], Michael A.B. Deakin, Leigh-Lancaster, David editor, The Name of the Number^[1], Australian Council for Educational Research, ISBN 0864317573, retrieved on 2008-05-17, page 75:
• [2002], Aliki Varvogli, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide^[2], Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 0826452337, retrieved on 2008-05-17, page 24-25:

Anagrams

• impp.