pimp
/pɪmp/
pimp noun: someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
Noun
pimp (plural pimps)
- Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
- "I'm not a whore. You're a pimp and a stupid American, and if you want to pick up a silly bitch on the street you'd better go back to the other side where you belong!"1969, Bonnie Bremser, Troia: Mexican Memoirs, page 111
- A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore2006, Lily Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Tommy McCook, “LDN”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen
- A man who can easily attract women.
Verb
pimp (third-person singular simple present pimps, present participle pimping, simple past and past participle pimped)
- To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
- Synonyms:
- procure
- To prostitute someone.
- The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
- To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
- You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.
- To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
- 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.2004, Robert A. Blume, Arthur W. Combs, The Continuing American Revolution: A Psychological Perspective, page 183
- To promote, to tout.
- I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
- The trendy rehabs being pimped by the addiction industry's glossy PR.1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 19
- 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:
- bewile, convince, abuse, beglammer, counterfeit, deceive, catch, trap into, dissemble, dissimulate
Adjective
pimp
Numeral
pimp
pimp meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
pimp in Hindi
- prostitution solicitor
- दलाल dalāl, कुटनी kuṭnī, भड़ुआ bhaṛuā
pimp in Tamil
- prostitution solicitor
- காமத்தரகன் kāmattarakaṉ, கூட்டிக்கொடுப்பவன் kūṭṭikkoṭuppavaṉ, மாமா māmā
- to act as procurer of prostitutes
- கூட்டிக்கொடு kūṭṭikkoṭu
- to prostitute someone
- கூட்டிக்கொடு kūṭṭikkoṭu, மாமா வேலை பார் māmā vēlai pār
- to persuade or trick another into doing something for your benefit
- ஏமாற்று ēmāṟṟu
pimp in Marathi
- पिम्प, पिंप, पिम्प करण्यासाठी
pimp in Urdu
- prostitution solicitor
- دَلال dalāl, کُٹْنی kuṭnī
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- pimp in Bengali
- কোটনা kōṭona
- pimp in Telugu
- తార్పుడుగాడు tārpuḍugāḍu, బాడ్కావ్ Telangana
- pimp in Malayalam
- ഡാഫർ ḍāphaṟ
- pimp in Kannada
- ಹೆಣ್ಣುಗ, ತಲೆಹಿಡಿಕ, ತಲೆಹಿಡುಕ
- pimp in Punjabi
- ਦੱਲਾ dallā
- pimp in Gujarati
- કાયર kāyar
- pimp in Odia
- ପିମ୍ପ, ପିମ୍ପ୍, ପିମ୍ପ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
- pimp in Nepali
- पिम्प, पिम्प्, पिम्प गर्न
- pimp in Pashto
- بغری bağaray
- pimp in Tagalog
- bugaw, kuwekong, alkahuwete, tita-tita
- pimp in Arabic
- قَوَّاد qawwād, عرص ʕarṣ, قَادَ qāda, قَوَّدَ qawwada
- pimp in Malay
- alku, barua, jaruman, ketolol
- pimp in Indonesian
- germo, muncikari
- pimp in Persian
- کسکشی کردن kos-keši kardan, جاکشی کردن jâkeši kardan
- pimp in Thai
- แมงดา mɛɛng-daa
- pimp in Vietnamese
- kẻ mối lái, ma cô
- pimp in Myanmar
- ဖါခေါင်း hpahkaung:
Examples of pimp in a sentence
- My mom pimped me out, for my fundraising skills, to the United Way for a fundraiser.
- The mob boss had numerous pimps and drug dealers on her paylist.
- I need to pimp up a little before going out.
Synonyms of pimp
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Forms of pimp
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pimps |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pimps |
| present participle | pimping |
| past participle | pimped |
| past | pimped |
Origin of pimp
Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“a boy, a youth, a young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “a solicitor”).
From Brythonic numerals, from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp. Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
Words formed from pimp
Phrases with pimp
Words that rhyme with pimp
Questions about pimp
- What does pimp mean?
- Pimp means someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
- What is pimp in Hindi?
- Pimp in Hindi is दलाल (dalāl), कुटनी (kuṭnī), भड़ुआ (bhaṛuā). See Pimp meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pimp?
- Pimp can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a numeral.
- How do you pronounce pimp?
- Pimp is pronounced /pɪmp/.
- What is the plural of pimp?
- The plural of pimp is pimps.
Words near pimp in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pimp (page history and authors); pimp (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ഡാഫർ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); pimp (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); કાયર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); pimp (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pimp (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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