pimping

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, pimp +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪmpɪŋ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Adjective

pimping (comparative more pimping, superlative most pimping)

1. (dated) Little or petty.
2. (obsolete, US, dialect) puny; sickly
3. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Consisting of or having the qualities of a pimp.

Noun

pimping (countable and uncountable, plural pimpings)

1. 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.

2. 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

• Arabic: قِوَادَة f (qiwāda)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: зводніцтва n (zvódnictva), сутэнёрства n (sutenjórstva)
• Bulgarian: сво́дничество n (svódničestvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拉皮條 / 拉皮条 (zh) (lā pítiáo)

• Czech: kuplířství n
• Danish: rufferi n
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: paritus (fi)
• French: proxénétisme (fr) m
• German: Zuhälterei (de) f, geschäftsmäßige Kuppelei f
• Italian: lenocinio (it) m, prossenetismo (it) m, favoreggiamento (della prostituzione) m
• Latin: lēnōcinium n
• Macedonian: сводништво n (svodništvo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rufferi n, kobleri n, alfonseri n, hallikvirksomhet m or f

  Nynorsk: kopleri n, alfonseri n, hallikverksemd f

• Polish: sutenerstwo n, stręczycielstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: proxenetismo m, cafetinagem f (Brazil), alcovitagem f
• Russian: сутенёрство (ru) n (sutenjórstvo), сво́дничество (ru) n (svódničestvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: svȍdnīštvo (sh) n

  Latin: сво̏днӣштво n

• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: alcahuetería (es) f, proxenetismo (es) m, rufianería f, lenocinio (es) m, celestinazgo m
• Swedish: koppleri (sv) n
• Turkish:

  Modern: pezevenklik (tr)

  Ottoman: پزونكلك (pezevenklik)

• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

process of modifying a vehicle

• Finnish: tuunaus (fi)
• German: aufmotzen (de)
• Portuguese: tuning (pt) m

Verb

pimping

1. present participle and gerund of pimp