pimp

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 数词 num.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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!"
  2. A man who can easily attract women. slang
动词 v.
  1. To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. intransitive
  2. To prostitute someone. transitive
    — The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
  3. To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle. slang,transitive
    — You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.
  4. To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff). slang,transitive
    — 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.
  5. To promote, to tout. US,slang,transitive
    — I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
  6. To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit. US,slang
    — I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas.
形容词 adj.
  1. Excellent, fashionable, stylish. slang
数词 num.
  1. Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.

词形变化

pimps plural pimps present,singular,third-person pimping participle,present pimped participle,past pimped past

词源

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.
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