Pimp
noun
A person who controls prostitutes and arranges clients for them, taking a part of their earnings in return.
He was arrested for being a pimp.
Often appears as...
- accused of being a pimp
- arrested for pimping
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To arrange clients for prostitutes and collect a part of their earnings.
He was condemned for pimping out the innocent girls.
Often appears as...
- pimping out girls
- accused of pimping
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To make something more stylish, fancy, or impressive, often with expensive items or modifications.
He pimped his car with a huge sound system and custom paint job.
Often appears as...
- pimp my ride
- pimping out his car
Usage tips
Informal, Neutral
Colloquial
noun
A person who controls prostitutes and arranges clients for them, taking a part of their earnings in return.
He was arrested for being a pimp.
Often appears as...
- accused of being a pimp
- arrested for pimping
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To arrange clients for prostitutes and collect a part of their earnings.
He was condemned for pimping out the innocent girls.
Often appears as...
- pimping out girls
- accused of pimping
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To make something more stylish, fancy, or impressive, often with expensive items or modifications.
He pimped his car with a huge sound system and custom paint job.
Often appears as...
- pimp my ride
- pimping out his car
Usage tips
Informal, Neutral
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotations
The term 'pimp' as a noun carries negative moral and legal implications, often associated with crime.
The movie portrayed the harsh realities of pimps and their illegal activities.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Formal Use
Use 'pimp' with caution; it's very informal and may offend or shock in professional or formal settings.
When writing an essay on social issues, refer to 'individuals who exploit sex workers' instead of using 'pimp'.
Pro Tip 3/3Gender Neutral
Though traditionally male-associated, 'pimp' can refer to any gender in the role of managing prostitutes.
She was revealed to be the pimp in control of the illicit business.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotations
The term 'pimp' as a noun carries negative moral and legal implications, often associated with crime.
The movie portrayed the harsh realities of pimps and their illegal activities.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Formal Use
Use 'pimp' with caution; it's very informal and may offend or shock in professional or formal settings.
When writing an essay on social issues, refer to 'individuals who exploit sex workers' instead of using 'pimp'.
Pro Tip 3/3Gender Neutral
Though traditionally male-associated, 'pimp' can refer to any gender in the role of managing prostitutes.
She was revealed to be the pimp in control of the illicit business.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotations
The term 'pimp' as a noun carries negative moral and legal implications, often associated with crime.
The movie portrayed the harsh realities of pimps and their illegal activities.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Formal Use
Use 'pimp' with caution; it's very informal and may offend or shock in professional or formal settings.
When writing an essay on social issues, refer to 'individuals who exploit sex workers' instead of using 'pimp'.
Pro Tip 3/3Gender Neutral
Though traditionally male-associated, 'pimp' can refer to any gender in the role of managing prostitutes.
She was revealed to be the pimp in control of the illicit business.
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Video examples
Majora Carter: Greening...
The common perception was that only pimps and pushers and prostitutes were from the South Bronx. And if you are told from your earliest days that nothing good is going to come from your community, that it's bad and ugly, how could it not reflect on you? So now, my family's property was worthless,
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Sheryl Sandberg: So we...
And I think people don't fully understand how broad the message is. There is a circle that's been started for rescued sex workers in Miami. They're using "Lean In" to help people make the transition back to what would be a fair life, really rescuing them from their pimps, and using it.
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“Darius Goes West” PIPE...
wheelchair accessibility across the United States to raise funds and awareness for DMD and to convince the producers of MTV's hit show pimp my ride to customize Darius's wheelchair on national television footage from the trip became a successful nonprofit
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Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
You probably think about a young girl or woman, who's been brutally forced into prostitution by a violent pimp. That is real suffering, and that is a real story. That story makes me angry for far more than just the reality of that situation, though.
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Sarah Jones: One woman,...
No, I don't think I said anything, I just finished playing and went home. All right class, so then there were men who had more than just a passing relationship to this issue. The next subject described himself as a reformed and remorseful pimp
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Insults by Shakespeare
you're beginning to construct some characterization of the relationship between Hamlet and Polonius, which was not good. But if you dig some more, "fishmonger" means a broker of some type, and in this setting, would mean like a pimp,
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The Housing First...
were expected to earn enough money a day to support a hundred-dollar-a-day heroin addiction, their living expenses and their pimp. And with unprotected sex, they were paid more, and predictably, this would lead to a pregnancy.
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Jimmy Carter: Why I...
if they are in sexual slavery, but the brothel owners and the pimps and the male customers are prosecuted, and -- -- prostitution has gone down. In the United States, we take just the opposite position.
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Paola Antonelli: Why I...
maybe it's my own reflection, I've never been able to do anything but crashing cars and shooting prostitutes and pimps. So it was not very constructive. So, I'm making fun of it, but we discussed this
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Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
that thermometer might be a bit confused when pimp I guess if I had to be honest it definitely feels it definitely feels
Video examples
Majora Carter: Greening...
The common perception was that only pimps and pushers and prostitutes were from the South Bronx. And if you are told from your earliest days that nothing good is going to come from your community, that it's bad and ugly, how could it not reflect on you? So now, my family's property was worthless,
Video examples
Sheryl Sandberg: So we...
And I think people don't fully understand how broad the message is. There is a circle that's been started for rescued sex workers in Miami. They're using "Lean In" to help people make the transition back to what would be a fair life, really rescuing them from their pimps, and using it.
Video examples
“Darius Goes West” PIPE...
wheelchair accessibility across the United States to raise funds and awareness for DMD and to convince the producers of MTV's hit show pimp my ride to customize Darius's wheelchair on national television footage from the trip became a successful nonprofit
Video examples
Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
You probably think about a young girl or woman, who's been brutally forced into prostitution by a violent pimp. That is real suffering, and that is a real story. That story makes me angry for far more than just the reality of that situation, though.
Video examples
Sarah Jones: One woman,...
No, I don't think I said anything, I just finished playing and went home. All right class, so then there were men who had more than just a passing relationship to this issue. The next subject described himself as a reformed and remorseful pimp
Video examples
Insults by Shakespeare
you're beginning to construct some characterization of the relationship between Hamlet and Polonius, which was not good. But if you dig some more, "fishmonger" means a broker of some type, and in this setting, would mean like a pimp,
Video examples
The Housing First...
were expected to earn enough money a day to support a hundred-dollar-a-day heroin addiction, their living expenses and their pimp. And with unprotected sex, they were paid more, and predictably, this would lead to a pregnancy.
Video examples
Jimmy Carter: Why I...
if they are in sexual slavery, but the brothel owners and the pimps and the male customers are prosecuted, and -- -- prostitution has gone down. In the United States, we take just the opposite position.
Video examples
Paola Antonelli: Why I...
maybe it's my own reflection, I've never been able to do anything but crashing cars and shooting prostitutes and pimps. So it was not very constructive. So, I'm making fun of it, but we discussed this
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
that thermometer might be a bit confused when pimp I guess if I had to be honest it definitely feels it definitely feels
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Quote examples
Feist
Canadian Musician
I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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Tom Hiddleston
English Actor
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.
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Hunter S. Thompson
American Journalist
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
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Xavier Dolan
Canadian Actor
Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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John Ridley
American Director
If some of us can get an Oscar for extolling that it's hard out there for a pimp, why can't others of us admonish: 'Then quit acting like a pimp'?
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Tiger Woods
American Golfer
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
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Larry Holmes
American Athlete
All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.
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Feist
Canadian Musician
I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
Quote examples
Tom Hiddleston
English Actor
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.
Quote examples
Hunter S. Thompson
American Journalist
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Quote examples
Xavier Dolan
Canadian Actor
Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
Quote examples
John Ridley
American Director
If some of us can get an Oscar for extolling that it's hard out there for a pimp, why can't others of us admonish: 'Then quit acting like a pimp'?
Quote examples
Tiger Woods
American Golfer
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Quote examples
Larry Holmes
American Athlete
All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.
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