pimping

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pimping

  • /ˈpɪmpɪŋ/

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By surface analysis, pimp + -ing.

adjective more pimping · most pimping

  1. dated Little or petty.
  2. US, dialectal, obsolete Puny; sickly.
  3. slang Consisting of or having the qualities of a pimp.

noun pimpings

  1. countable, uncountable The practise of managing and hiring out prostitutes. His young adult life was marked by a series of robberies, forgeries, pimpings, assaults, and incarcerations at increasingly tougher institutions. The FBI had investigated him under the Dyer Act for the interstate transport of stolen cars.
  2. countable, slang, uncountable The process of modifying a vehicle (usually a car), predominantly focusing on its appearance and audiovisual system as opposed to performance.

Similar: pandering, poncing, procuration, procuring, procurement, proxenetism

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of pimp

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noun process of modifying a vehicle

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@misc{pimping_2026,
  title = {pimping},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pimping},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}