pimp

Plural: pimps

Noun

someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
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

Verb Forms: pimped, pimping, pimps

To act as a pimp; to solicit clients for a prostitute.
arrange for sexual partners for others
To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
To prostitute someone.
To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
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.

Adj

Excellent, fashionable, stylish.

Num

Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.

Examples

He tried to pimp his low-scoring letters into a bingo, but the board wasn’t cooperating.
I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas.
The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.

Origin / Etymology

Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“boy, youth, young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “solicitor”).

Synonyms

fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, ponce, procure, procurer, ;, abbot, bludger, bully, cock-bawd, dalaal, fishmonger, flashman, fleshmonger, hoon, hustle, hustler, mack, mack daddy, mack out, mackerel, muttonmonger, nookie-bookie, pimp, pimp out, pimp up, pitch, promote, pussymonger, ruffian, souteneur, spruik, sweetman, tout, whore out, whoreman, whoremaster, whoremonger

Scrabble Score: 10

pimp: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pimp: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pimp: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

pimp: valid Words With Friends Word