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pimp verb- to work as a pimp; to exert control over a prostitute US
- Then I would pimp her–try to get as much out of her as I could. Sandy’s not gettin’ pimped. She’s with a pimp. She doesn’t just want to be part of the group that’s getting pimped. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 56, 1972
- The only thing I had going for me was the fact that Ace wasn’t a kid but a man who had pimped long enough to know just how the pimp game goes. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 143, 1973
- Just because I didn’t want to pimp Amelia or anybody else? — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 153, 1978
- Sistahs had a lot of heart and you had to be a lotta pimp to pimp’em. — Odie Hawkins, Black Chicago, p. 116, 1992
- to take advantage of US, 1942
- You can start pimping hard on a bitch and then sucker out and blow her, but ain’t no way you can turn it around and pimp on Pepper after starting with her like a sucker. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 65, 1969
- to act in a stylised, fashionable way US
- — Current Slang, p. 11, Fall 1970
- The hip dudes profiled in their All Stars and pimped down the hallway at school like they owned the white man’s world. — Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler, p. 25, 1994
- to inform; to betray AUSTRALIA, 1938
- Now he’ll pimp to the second. — Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, p. 145, 1945
- “Don’t think you can pimp on me and get away with it!” — Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory, p. 197, 1950
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 155, 1982
- to win away the affection of another person’s date US
- — John D. Bell et al., Loosely Speaking, p. 14, 1966
- to make a thing ostentatiously stylish or fashionable; to add accessories US
- [W]hether he should have sold/rented/traded or pimped it. — Fred Silverman, rec.music.dylan, 13 October 1996
- — Pimp My Ride, March 2004
- Once a pejorative term for a person who exploits women, ppimp now means to make something nice, styulis, or pumped up with extras. — Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia), p. D1, 5 April 2005
- — Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman, Pimp My Lunch, October 2005
- — Michael Regan, Pimp My Cubicle, March 2006
- — Thomas Grossniklaus, Pimp My Business, May 2008
- — Lucy Tobin, Pimp Your Vocab, 2009
- George had pimped his rocket to the max. — Hans Christian Asbosen, Robin the Hoodie, p. 178, 2009
▶ pimp your pipe to loan or rent a pipe used for smoking crack cocaine US- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
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