pimp

Meanings

Plural: pimps

Noun

someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
A man who can easily attract women.

Verb

arrange for sexual partners for others
To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
To prostitute someone.
To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
To promote, to tout.
To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.

Adj

Excellent, fashionable, stylish.

Num

Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.

Origin / Etymology

Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“boy, youth, young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “solicitor”).

Synonyms

;, abbot, bludger, bully, cock-bawd, dalaal, fancy man, fishmonger, flashman, fleshmonger, hoon, hustle, hustler, mack, mack daddy, mack out, mackerel, muttonmonger, nookie-bookie, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, pimp out, pimp up, pitch, ponce, procure, procurer, promote, pussymonger, ruffian, souteneur, spruik, sweetman, tout, whore out, whoreman, whoremaster, whoremonger

Scrabble Score: 10

pimp is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
pimp is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pimp is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

pimp is a valid Words With Friends word