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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who finds customers for a prostitute; a procurer.
  2. v. To serve as a procurer of prostitutes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who provides others with the means and opportunity of gratifying their lusts; a pander.
  2. To provide for others the means of gratifying lust; pander.
  3. n. A small bavin. See the quotation.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer.
  2. n. A man who can easily attract women.
  3. v. To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  4. v. To prostitute someone.
  5. v. To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also term).
  6. v. To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (by a senior member of the medical staff).
  7. v. To promote, to tout.
  8. adj. excellent, fashionable, stylish
  9. five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.
  2. v. To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. arrange for sexual partners for others
  2. n. someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

Etymologies

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  • johnmperry 5 in North of England sheep counting jargon. See yan Sep 26, 2008

  • yarb I know the great: they reckon nothing upon the zeal and attachment of a real friend; but only care for pimping sycophants.

    - Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 15 Sep 12, 2008

  • uselessness Another example of negative words being colloquially flipped on their heads for positive use. It's a strange phenomenon, but I'd say it's a bad one. And by bad I mean good. ;-) Sep 17, 2007

‘pimp’ has been looked up 1799 times, loved by 2 people, added to 23 lists, commented on 3 times, and has a Scrabble score of 10.