PIMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pimp mean? 

• PIMP (noun)
  The noun PIMP has 1 sense:

1. someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

  Familiarity information: PIMP used as a noun is very rare.

• PIMP (verb)
  The verb PIMP has 1 sense:

1. arrange for sexual partners for others

  Familiarity information: PIMP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fancy man; pandar; pander; panderer; pimp; ponce; procurer

Hypernyms ("pimp" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pimp"):

procuress (a woman pimp)

whoremaster; whoremonger (a pimp who procures whores)

Derivation:

pimp (arrange for sexual partners for others)

• PIMP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pimp    ... he / she / it pimps   
Past simple: pimped   
Past participle: pimped   
-ing form: pimping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange for sexual partners for others

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

pander; pimp; procure

Hypernyms (to "pimp" is one way to...):

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

pimp (someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce))

 Context examples 

For having strictly examined all the persons of greatest name in the courts of princes, for a hundred years past, I found how the world had been misled by prostitute writers, to ascribe the greatest exploits in war, to cowards; the wisest counsel, to fools; sincerity, to flatterers; Roman virtue, to betrayers of their country; piety, to atheists; chastity, to sodomites; truth, to informers: how many innocent and excellent persons had been condemned to death or banishment by the practising of great ministers upon the corruption of judges, and the malice of factions: how many villains had been exalted to the highest places of trust, power, dignity, and profit: how great a share in the motions and events of courts, councils, and senates might be challenged by bawds, whores, pimps, parasites, and buffoons.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations: every one of which terms I was at much pains to make him understand.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, strolling whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)