The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pimp \Pimp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pimped (p[i^]mt; 215); p. pr.
& vb. n. Pimping.]
To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to
pander.
--Dryden.
Pimping \Pimp"ing\, a. [Cf. G. pimpelig, pimpelnd, sickly, weak.]
Little; petty; pitiful. [Obs.]
--Crabbe.Puny; sickly. [Local, U.S.]
Wiktionary
1 (context dated English) little or petty. 2 (context obsolete US dialect English) puny; sickly 3 (context slang African American Vernacular English English) consisting of or having the quality of a pimp. n. 1 The practise of procuring prostitutes. 2 The process of modifying a vehicle (usually a car), predominantly focusing on its appearance and audiovisual system as opposed to performance. v
(present participle of pimp English)
Usage examples of "pimping".
As an ex-hooker, she vaguely understood that pimping was a nonreducible felony that requires prison time.
What a busy girl Jean had been, what with pledge-class picnics, lectures at the law school, pimping for her sisters, and blackmailing the dean, her housemother, and quite possibly other people.
Besides the attention it paid to Protestants it instituted very severe processes against Judaizing Christians and took cognizance also of seduction, of pimping, of sodomy, and of infringment of the ecclesiastical rules for fasting.
Black men alleged to be killing, raping, mugging, stabbing, gangbanging, looting, rioting, selling drugs, pimping, ho-ing, having too many babies, dropping babies from tenement windows, fatherless, motherless, Godless, penniless.
De Witt, a San Berdoo native with three pimping priors, kept yelping that the Siegel mob or the police had framed him: the mob because he sometimes ran cooze in Siegel territory, the cops because they needed a patsy for the Boulevard-Citizen job.
The only commercial activity other than violence that they could credibly be involved in was drug peddling or maybe pimping.
Karel Kaczmarek had a record stretching back fifteen years for criminal assault, robbery, brothel running and pimping.
Pragasu, having developed a friendly relationship with these California hackers, is pimping them to his big money contacts.
Thrown into one of the gutters, he had been found by a Hawaiian boy who did pimping for a group of girls, and this boy, in the custom of the islands, had lugged the bewildered Japanese home, where his sister had washed his bruises.
The stories ran from the relatively prosaic: negro boot-leggers with mob connections taking their loot and buying liquor stores in Watts and wetback-staffed garment mills in San Pedro, to exotic: the same thugs flooding low darktowns with cut-rate heroin and pimping out their most beautiful high-yellow sweethearts to L.
He had three pimping rousts, no convictions, and I want you to check all the local city and county vice squads to see if he's got a file.
In there or you'll curse the mothers you never knew for giving you birth—you murdering, thieving, pimping hijodeputa.
And there are murders and thievings and pimpings and- Oh, there are tales I could tell you if-"