pimping

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  1. Little; petty; sickly. [Colloquial] He had no paltry arts, no pimping ways. Crabbe. “Was I so little?” asked Margaret. “Yes, and pimpin, enough.” S. Judd, Margaret, i. 4.

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  • It's sort of like the soccer mom version of pimping one's ride. —  Gizmodo
  • The brutal contestant-pimping by the show runners. —  theday.Com - Breaking News
  • Neither one really needed the extra pimping, since both were either the best or close to the best in their round. —  The Trades
  • A 35-year-old bartender has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for the pimping of 118 —  The Local - Sweden's news in English
  • But then I found drug-dealing and pimping, and everything was awwwllll-riiiight ...
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  1. Cf. German pimpelig, pimpelich, sickly, weak, little, from pimpeln, be weak. moan; cf. pim, imitative of the sound of a bell. Cf. also pimp.
 

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