pimp

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
  2. verb arrange for sexual partners for others

Etymology

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”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

procurer, panderer, pander, pandar, fancy man, ponce

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