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pimpy

pimpy adjective: like a pimp.

Adjective

pimpy (comparative more pimpy, superlative most pimpy)

  1. (informal, slang) Like a pimp.
    • Like Mr. Paresi, a pimpy Brooklyn lawyer who my mother claims is the number-one criminal defense attorney in New York, complete with an impressive roster of Mafia clients.1997, Harold Augenbraum, Margarite Fernández Olmos, The Latino reader, page 477
    • It’s kind of pimpy, sleazy, Eurotrash-guys-in-Vegas fashion, but it’s fashion.”2007 September 16, Alex Kuczynski, “Nude Awakening”, in New York Times

Forms of pimpy

comparativemore pimpy
superlativemost pimpy

Origin of pimpy

From pimp + -y.

Words that rhyme with pimpy

Questions about pimpy

What does pimpy mean?
Pimpy means like a pimp.
What part of speech is pimpy?
Pimpy is an adjective.

Words near pimpy in the dictionary

  1. pimps out
  2. pimps up
  3. pimpship
  4. pimpsuit
  5. pimpsy
  6. pimpy
  7. PIMS
  8. PIMS-TS
  9. Pimsleur
  10. PIMU
  11. pin

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