pimping
English
Etymology
By surface analysis, pimp + -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɪmpɪŋ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Adjective
pimping (comparative more pimping, superlative most pimping)
- (dated) Little or petty.
- (obsolete, US, dialect) puny; sickly
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) Consisting of or having the qualities of a pimp.
Noun
pimping (countable and uncountable, plural pimpings)
- The practise of managing and hiring out prostitutes.
- 2017, John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, page 119:
- 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.
- The process of modifying a vehicle (usually a car), predominantly focusing on its appearance and audiovisual system as opposed to performance.
Synonyms
- pandering
- poncing (British, slang)
- procuration (of women)
- procuring
- procurement
- proxenetism
Translations
practise of procuring prostitutes
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process of modifying a vehicle
Verb
pimping
- present participle and gerund of pimp