# pimp

Pronunciation: say "PIMP" /pɪmp/

## Noun

1. A person who finds customers for prostitutes and acts as the manager of a group of them.
   - Simple: A person who finds customers for people who sell sex and controls their work.
   - _Police arrested the pimp after three of the women agreed to testify against him._
   - _The pimps ran the operation out of two motels near the highway._
6. A man who has an easy time attracting women. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A man who finds it easy to get women to like him.
   - _Every woman at the party wanted his number, and his friends called him a pimp all night._
   - _Back in high school he was a real pimp, with a different girl on his arm at every dance._

## Verb

2. To customize something to excess, especially a car or other vehicle. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To change and decorate something, like a car, so it looks very fancy.
   - _He pimped out his old Cadillac with gold rims and a sound system that rattles windows._
   - _They want to pimp my bike with neon lights and chrome._
3. To push or publicize something, talking it up to others. *(slang, US)*
   - Simple: To tell lots of people about something to get them interested.
   - _She's been pimping her new podcast on every social platform she can find._
   - _Authors now have to pimp their own books at every bookstore and festival._
4. To act as a pimp: to find customers for prostitutes, or to offer someone as a prostitute, taking a share of the earnings.
   - Simple: To get customers for people who sell sex and take money from what they earn.
   - _He had been pimping for years before the police caught up with him._
   - _Prosecutors said he started to pimp after losing his job at the docks._

## Adjective

5. Excellent, or fashionable and stylish. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Very cool, stylish or great.
   - _Those new sneakers are pimp, man._
   - _The new apartment is pretty pimp, with a rooftop pool and a view of the river._

## Other meanings

- (verb) To persuade, sweet-talk or trick someone into doing something that benefits you.
- (verb) Of a senior doctor, to question a resident or medical student with ever harder questions until one cannot be answered.
- (numeral) The number five in Cumbrian and Welsh systems for counting sheep.

## Origin

No one knows where the word comes from. Possible sources are French pimpant ("smart, sparkish") and German Pimpf ("boy, youth, young squirt"). In Old English, a word close in meaning was forspennend, literally "solicitor."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/pimp (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).