pimp

Etymology 1

Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“boy, youth, young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “solicitor”).

noun

1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
   A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore 2006, Lily Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Tommy McCook (lyrics and music), “LDN”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen
2. (African-American Vernacular, slang) A man who can easily attract women.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
2. (transitive) To prostitute someone.
   The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
3. (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle (also pimp out).
   You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.
4. (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).
   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. 2004, Robert A. Blume, Arthur W. Combs, The Continuing American Revolution: A Psychological Perspective, page 183
5. (transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.
   I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
6. (US, slang) To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
   I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas.

adj

1. (slang) excellent, fashionable, stylish

Etymology 2

From Brythonic numerals, from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp. Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of five, cinque, punch, and Pompeii.

num

1. (Cumbria and Old Welsh) Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.