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How to use pimp in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Pimp means someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander. Example: “The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.”

Examples of pimp by meaning

nounSomeone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

  • 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

verbTo prostitute someone.

  • The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.

verbTo excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.

  • You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.

verbTo ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior...

  • 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

verbTo 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

verbTo 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.

More sentences with pimp

  • My mom pimped me out, for my fundraising skills, to the United Way for a fundraiser.From the entry pimp out
  • The mob boss had numerous pimps and drug dealers on her paylist.From the entry paylist
  • I need to pimp up a little before going out.From the entry pimp up
  • He was decked out as a successful pimp.From the entry deck out
  • A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits.2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game, page 11. From the entry straight
  • While the pimp can always pull a ho with his magnetism, he can never pull a nun.2011, Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow, Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All. From the entry pull
  • But they seemed lonely, too, without the company of their pimp and the rest of his string.2006, Steve Niles, Jeff Mariotte, 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead, page 307. From the entry string
  • Pimp had been kicking it with one of the young jawns hanging around the apartment.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry chronic
  • Pimp pulled out his gat and let it hang in his hand.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry gat
  • He gorilla pimped Charlene, made him conform to his wants by beating him.2004, Tony Lindsay, Chasin' It, page 6. From the entry gorilla pimp
  • The demon vampire ripped the pulse-pounding beamer from the hands of the evil pimp.2003, W. C. Leadbeater, “Return of the Dread Mutant Killer Glaucoma”, in The Mind-warp Era: A Novel, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page…. From the entry pulse-pounding
  • The girl winked at the pimp as he slipped out to the hallway.1979, Dale Riepe, The Owl Flies by Day, page 40. From the entry drabble-tail
  • “You lousy, fornicating pimp!” he said, his voice shaking with fury.1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 202. From the entry fornicating
  • It's her pimp, if she wants to do it it's her funeral.1936, Caroline Slade, Sterile Sun. From the entry it's someone's funeral
  • He didnʼt look like a gangster or pimp but he carried the sleaziness of someone who did barely legal work.2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 29. From the entry sleaziness
  • You can't touch my swag; I got pimp juice.2018, Marlon Douglas, Urban Life Poetry: Vol 1, page 56. From the entry pimp juice
  • Go to Paris – go live with that pimp Maximus.2015, Joan Collins, chapter 26, in The St. Tropez Lonely Hearts Club, London: Constable, published 2016, →ISBN, page 269. From the entry baby-mamma
  • Chance is doing some double-checking to see if she had a pimp nobody knew about, but it doesn't look likely.2010, Lawrence Block, Eight Million Ways To Die. From the entry outlaw
  • "He thinks he got pimp juice, because he sells drugs and he keeps a pocket full of loot."2003, Lawrence Christopher, Mary's Little Lamb: A Mick Hart Mystery, page 48. From the entry pimp juice
  • You can't pimp out a ho on no earth level.2000, Ice-T, quoted in Josh Kun, “Quickfix: Pimps in Space”, CMJ New Music Monthly, ISSN 1074-6978, Number 84 (August 2000), page 12. From the entry pimp out
  • Joe becomes a pimp and street pharmacist.1999 October 18, John Kozin, “OT: THEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EXAM 1”, in alt.toys.gi-joe (Usenet), retrieved 19 Apr 2022. From the entry street pharmacist
  • He's known as the literary pimp of Sixth Avenue.1987, James A. Michener, Centennial, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry crumbum
  • "Who's he?" ¶ "Anthony Pervis, my pimp.1982, Philip Straker, Night Bait, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry schiz
  • Without a pimp, she was an "outlaw," likely to be harassed, or threatened with assault or robbery on the street.1977, Joseph Julian, Social Problems, page 463. From the entry outlaw
  • No, a pimple is not a small pimp.1909, “Syphilo-dermo Urologic Maxims”, in American Journal of Dermatology and Genito-urinary Diseases, page 89. From the entry hickey
  • My pimp vision enabled me to see that no hoe in my stable would be more worthy of the game than my young turnout red-bones.2013, Noble Dee, Pimp: Reflection of My Life, page 167. From the entry stable
  • They hang around pimps, they have hoes on the track working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game, page 11. From the entry straight
  • Oh, the pimps weren't so had.2012, William Kienzle, Marked for Murder: The Father Koesler Mysteries. From the entry pimpless
  • She was luckier than many of the girls in that she had never had a pimp who deserted, or worse, beat her.2012, William Kienzle, Marked for Murder: The Father Koesler Mysteries. From the entry pimpless
  • Before she met the man who became and remains her pimp, she was selling drugs with her godsister; he was one of their clients.2007, Cynthia Cole Robinson, From the classroom to the corner. From the entry godsister
  • Within a month the Michigan mudkicker found her new master and the naive young pimp was stuck with a brace of howling crumb crushers.1971, Iceberg Slim, Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry mudkicker
  • The bun itself is pimped with salted caramel, topped with cheddar and brie and then whacked in a toastie-maker until the cheese is golden and bubbling.2018 March 28, Samuel Fishwick, “Hot Cross Fun”, in Evening Standard, page 36. From the entry toastie-maker
  • The nun is too in touch with her own compassionate and honest spirit to react to a spirit as negative and deceitful as that of the pimp.2011, Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow, Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All. From the entry pull

Meaning of pimp

  1. noun Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
  2. noun A man who can easily attract women.
  3. verb To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.

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Questions about pimp in a sentence

How do you use pimp in a sentence?
Pimp is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.”
What is a short sentence with pimp?
“Oh, the pimps weren't so had.”
What does pimp mean?
Pimp means someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

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