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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. five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting
  2. n. A person who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer.
  3. n. A man who can easily attract women.
  4. v. intransitive To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  5. v. transitive To prostitute someone.
  6. v. transitive, US, African American Vernacular To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).
  7. v. transitive, medicine, slang To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (by a senior member of the medical staff).
  8. v. transitive, US, slang To promote, to tout.
  9. v. slang To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
  10. adj. slang excellent, fashionable, stylish

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

  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. procurer
  1. pander
  1. bawl
  1. spruik
  1. promote
  1. pitch
  1. tout

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. provide
  1. cater
  1. supply
  1. ply

same context (25)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. mugger
  2. bawd
  3. rapist
  4. prostitute
  5. hustler
  1. pander
  2. whore
  3. hooker
  4. burglar
  5. smuggler
  1. drunk
  2. gambler
  3. addict
  4. thug
  5. hoodlum
  1. harlot
  2. kidnapper
  3. sycophant
  4. procurer
  5. pusher
  1. drunkard
  2. peddler
  3. thief
  4. strumpet
  5. felon

rhymes (11)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Blimp
  2. blimp
  1. chimp
  2. crimp
  1. imp
  2. limp
  1. primp
  2. scrimp
  1. shrimp
  2. skimp
  1. wimp

reverse dictionary (29)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. whoremaster
  2. procuress
  3. whoremonger
  4. fleshmonger
  5. mackerel
  1. broke
  2. pimp-like
  3. pimpship
  4. putour
  5. apple-squire
  1. belswagger
  2. broker
  3. cadet
  4. pimpmobile
  5. man
  1. pandar
  2. pander
  3. panderer
  4. pimp
  5. Ponce
  1. procurer
  2. bully
  3. hustle
  4. fancy man
  5. mutton monger
  1. pinnace
  2. procure
  3. purveyor
  4. ruffian

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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

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