pimp
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
数词 num.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
— "I'm not a whore. You're a pimp and a stupid American, and if you want to pick up a silly bitch on the street you'd better go back to the other side where you belong!"
- A man who can easily attract women.
动词 v.
- To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
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To prostitute someone.
— The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
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To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
— You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.
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To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
— Only an attending physician can pimp a chief resident; the chief resident and attending can pimp a junior resident; they all three can pimp an intern.
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To promote, to tout.
— I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
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To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
— I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas.
形容词 adj.
- Excellent, fashionable, stylish.
数词 num.
- Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.
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词源 1
Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“a boy, a youth, a young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “a solicitor”).
词源 2
From Brythonic numerals, from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp.
Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
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