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pimp

(pĭmp)

One who finds customers for a prostitute; a procurer.

v. pimped, pimp·ing, pimps

v.intr.

1. To serve as a procurer of prostitutes.

2. To compromise one's principles, especially in promoting the interests of another, for personal gain: politicians pimping for campaign contributors.

v.tr.

To customize or adorn, often garishly: pimped his car.

[Origin unknown.]

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pimp

(pɪmp)

1. a man who solicits for a prostitute or brothel and lives off the earnings

2. a man who procures sexual gratification for another; procurer; pander

3. (intr) to act as a pimp

4. (tr) slang to adapt or embellish in an ostentatious manner

[C17: of unknown origin]

pimp

(pɪmp)

a spy or informer

(often foll by: on) to inform (on)

[of unknown origin]

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pimp

(pɪmp)

n.

1. a person, esp. a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usu. in return for a share of the earnings; procurer.

2. a despicable person.

v.i.

3. to act as a pimp.

[1630–40; orig. uncertain]

pimp

Past participle: pimped
Gerund: pimping

Imperative
pimp
pimp

Present
I pimp
you pimp
he/she/it pimps
we pimp
you pimp
they pimp

Preterite
I pimped
you pimped
he/she/it pimped
we pimped
you pimped
they pimped

Present Continuous
I am pimping
you are pimping
he/she/it is pimping
we are pimping
you are pimping
they are pimping

Present Perfect
I have pimped
you have pimped
he/she/it has pimped
we have pimped
you have pimped
they have pimped

Past Continuous
I was pimping
you were pimping
he/she/it was pimping
we were pimping
you were pimping
they were pimping

Past Perfect
I had pimped
you had pimped
he/she/it had pimped
we had pimped
you had pimped
they had pimped

Future
I will pimp
you will pimp
he/she/it will pimp
we will pimp
you will pimp
they will pimp

Future Perfect
I will have pimped
you will have pimped
he/she/it will have pimped
we will have pimped
you will have pimped
they will have pimped

Future Continuous
I will be pimping
you will be pimping
he/she/it will be pimping
we will be pimping
you will be pimping
they will be pimping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been pimping
you have been pimping
he/she/it has been pimping
we have been pimping
you have been pimping
they have been pimping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been pimping
you will have been pimping
he/she/it will have been pimping
we will have been pimping
you will have been pimping
they will have been pimping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been pimping
you had been pimping
he/she/it had been pimping
we had been pimping
you had been pimping
they had been pimping

Conditional
I would pimp
you would pimp
he/she/it would pimp
we would pimp
you would pimp
they would pimp

Past Conditional
I would have pimped
you would have pimped
he/she/it would have pimped
we would have pimped
you would have pimped
they would have pimped

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Noun	1.	pimp - someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, procurer, ponce England - a division of the United Kingdom offender, wrongdoer - a person who transgresses moral or civil law procuress - a woman pimp
Verb	1.	pimp - arrange for sexual partners for others pander, procure cater, ply, provide, supply - give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"

pimp

noun

1. procurer, go-between, bawd (archaic), white-slaver, pander, panderer, whoremaster (archaic) Every hooker I ever met had a pimp.

verb

1. procure, sell, tout, solicit, live off immoral earnings He sold drugs, and also did a bit of pimping on the side.

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Translations

hoerboerpooier

pasák

alfons

Zuhälter aufmotzen Lude

νταβατζής προαγωγός προστάτης σωματέμπορος

chulo golfo cafiche

parittaaparittajasutenööritoimia sutenöörinä

souteneur barbeau maquereau

strici

melludólgur

magnaccia pappone protettore ruffiano

leno

pooier

alfonssutener

сводник сводня сутенёр

pasák

buzi

pezevenk

pimp

[pɪmp]

A. N → proxeneta m (frm), chulo m (de putas) (Sp) , cafiche m (S. Cone)

B. VI to pimp for sb → ejercer de proxeneta de algn

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pimp

[ˈpɪmp]

n → souteneur m, maquereau m

vi → maquereauter

pimp

n → Zuhälter m

vi → Zuhälter sein; to pimp for somebody → für jdn den Zuhälter machen

pimp

n (Austral sl pej) → Spitzel m (pej), → Informant(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pimp

[pɪmp] n → ruffiano, protettore

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"Just so," replied the galley slave, "and the offence for which they gave him that punishment was having been an ear-broker, nay body-broker; I mean, in short, that this gentleman goes as a pimp, and for having besides a certain touch of the sorcerer about him."

"It is true," said the good old man, "and indeed, sir, as far as the charge of sorcery goes I was not guilty; as to that of being a pimp I cannot deny it; but I never thought I was doing any harm by it, for my only object was that all the world should enjoy itself and live in peace and quiet, without quarrels or troubles; but my good intentions were unavailing to save me from going where I never expect to come back from, with this weight of years upon me and a urinary ailment that never gives me a moment's ease;" and again he fell to weeping as before, and such compassion did Sancho feel for him that he took out a real of four from his bosom and gave it to him in alms.

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There's Jemmy Oliver, of our regiment, he narrowly escaped being a pimp too, and that would have been a thousand pities; for d--n me if he is not one of the prettiest fellows in the whole world; but he went farther than I with the old cull, for Jimmey can neither write nor read."

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I often reflected how my lover at the Bath, struck at the hand of God, repented and abandoned me, and refused to see me any more, though he loved me to an extreme; but I, prompted by that worst of devils, poverty, returned to the vile practice, and made the advantage of what they call a handsome face to be the relief to my necessities, and beauty be a pimp to vice.

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