pimp

Meanings

Noun

• Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
• A man who can easily attract women.

Verb

• To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
• To prostitute someone.
• To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle (also pimp out).
• To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
• To promote, to tout.
• To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.

Adjective

• excellent, fashionable, stylish

Related

Similar words

• pitch, promote, tout, spruik

Origin

• Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant or German Pimpf.
• From numerals. Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. five, cinque, punch, and Pompeii.