To Pimp
- (intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
- (transitive) To prostitute someone.
- (transitive, US, African-American Vernacular, slang) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).
- (transitive, medicine, slang) To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
- (transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.
- (US, slang) To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
| Synonyms |
(prostitute someone): hustle, whore out; pimp out
(promote, tout): pitch, promote, tout, spruik