EGAVE

pimp

About 0.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

  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.
  4. verb To prostitute someone.
    The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
  5. verb To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
    You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.
  6. verb To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
  7. verb To promote, to tout.
    I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
  8. verb 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.

Similar words

pandar pander fancy man procurer ponce panderer scumbag scum mal mac

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Word family

pimped pimping pimps

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