pimp
/pɪmp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
verb
To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
Slang; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- ""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!""
- "A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore"
- "All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record label"
- "The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone."
- "You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: pimpant, Pimpf, *pɨmp
Usage
- Slang
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
- American usage