pimp

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"They have Stockholm syndrome and believe the pimp is their friend."

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  1. noun One who finds customers for a prostitute; a procurer.
  2. intransitive verb To serve as a procurer of prostitutes.

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  • For compared to thesetraitors to the nation, every pimp is a man of honor Strangely enough, all the really seamy sides of old Germanyattracted attention only when the inner solidarity of the nation would inevitablysuffer thereby. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: Causes of the Collapse
  • But I had seen macques in the making too often to enjoy the process I was fully aware that the pimp was a ripe product of prostitution, instead of prostitution being the offspring of the pimp, as a recent public delusion would lead us to believe. —  MADELEINE: An Autobiography
  • If a pimp is the owner of expensive property—such as a Porsche convertible and an apartment in the best area of the city—that fact is taken as proof of tax fraud. —  The Streetbird - van de Wetering, Janwillem - Grijpstra-de Gier 09
  • "They have Stockholm syndrome and believe the pimp is their friend." —  Merced Sun-Star: front
  • Authorities began investigating after a 17-year-old girl who identified Young as her pimp was arrested for prostitution, according to a federal complaint filed in Santa Ana. —  Courthouse News Service
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Origin unknown; according to Skeat perhaps orig. ‘a fellow,’ from French pimper, dress up smartly (= Provencal pimpar, pipar, render elegant); cf. pimpant, present participle smart, spruce; apparently a nasalized form of piper, pipe, beguile, cheat, also excel; cf. Provencal pimpa, a pipe, birdcall, snare: see pipe. This explanation is, however, inadequate; the word is apparently of low slang origin, without any recorded basis.
  2. from pimp, n.
  3. Origin obscure.
 

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