pimp
pronunciation
How to pronounce pimp in British English:
UK [pɪmp]
How to pronounce pimp in American English:
US [pɪmp]
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- Noun:
- someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
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- Verb:
- arrange for sexual partners for others
Word Origin
- pimp (n.)
- c. 1600, of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle French pimpant "alluring in dress, seductive," present participle of pimper "to dress elegantly" (16c.), from Old French pimpelorer, pipelorer "decorate, color, beautify." Weekley suggests Middle French pimpreneau, defined in Cotgrave [French-English Dictionary, 1611] as "a knave, rascall, varlet, scoundrell," but Liberman is against this. Judging by such recorded meanings of pimp as 'helper in mines; servant in logging camps,' this word was originally applied to boys and servants. [Liberman] The word also means "informer, stool pigeon" in Australia and New Zealand and in South Africa, where by early 1960s it existed in Swahili form impimpsi. Pimpmobile first recorded 1973 (six years before Popemobile). PIMP. A male procurer, or cock bawd; also a small faggot used about London for lighting fires, named from introducing the fire to the coals. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," London, 1785]
- pimp (v.)
- 1630s (intransitive) "to act as a pimp," from pimp (n.). Related: Pimped; pimping.
Example
- 1. Her pimp went off a rooftop .
- 2. And there were chutki and three other girls in a room , a pimp hovering over them .
- 3. Equally important , one pimp had been arrested and arrest warrants had been issued for two more .
- 4. For the next five years until he went to jail her pimp trafficked her all over the western united states .
- 5. Are you her pimp ?