pimp The word "pimp" is one of those slang words that can be an insult or a compliment, depending on how you look at it. In hip-hop culture and now in more mainstream culture (i.e., MTV's "Pimp My Ride"), you may hear someone describe a car or a person as "pimped out," meaning it's decked out or done-up. In other words, it looks really cool. But something that's pimped out can border on being gaudy, which is why some people use the term negatively to say that something is "too much." Everyone's got their limits... Originally, the word "pimp" was used to refer to a male owner of a brothel (whorehouse) or a man who procures prostitutes for customers and takes a cut of the pay...and is often abusive. Pimps are all over the movies, especially the Blaxploitation films of the '70s like "Shaft" or "Coffy," in which they're portrayed as flashy dressers. In a parody of the genre, the pimp in"I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," actually wears clear plastic platform shoes with goldfish swimming inside. Presumably, it's because of these outrageous outfits that the word "pimp" has come to be used as a way of describing something souped up and cool.

Comments

[Nikki]

OMG i totally use the word pimp in my house and my mom gets so mad because she goes
"DO YOU KNOW THAT MEANS A MAN WHO OWNS PROSTITUTES!?"
and i get in so much trouble.
but at school that's not how we use it ya know?

[Child of God]

I think pimps are VERY desperate because they'll take ANY woman. Nasty, sick perverts.

[Adrianna F.]

I've only known the original meaning of pimp so I've gotton confused about it over the years...thank God for gurl.com lol.

[ReadyorNot]

I dont know why but the word "PIMP"really irratates me.I just cant get passed it.

[rhiannon]

ok,imma girl,so dont nobody get all worked up about(i know somebody will) but i honestly dont think theres anything wrong with being a pimp. i mean if you're a pimp you smacks around woman and are sexist and crap like that, then yeah theres soemthing wrong. but there are people like that who arent pimps,so yeah.

[Emily]

Ha! The guys in my grade used to say that everything was "pimpin'" and it was so stupid, and in the end, nobody knew what it meant!

[WINKWINK(jorgie)]

hahaha thats right BABY GURL they need to have there balls chopped off for being stupid mother fucking cheaters....i hate them too i mean geez just fall in love and stop playing around for real...grow up...find REAL LOVE and stop bitching around trying to be a bad ass..fuck!

[babygurl]

pimps are guys who think thy're big and bad cause they can order around women but when it comes to fighting someone they know will kick their sorry asses they back off i personally have no respect for them and as far as i'm concerned they are low down peaces of perverted slime balls who need to be causterized or in simpler words have their dick,balls,whole mother loud cut off or out. i hate them

[uknowwhoiam]

ma X-friend marco was a pimp and broke ma bffz heart when she was goin out wit him(he cheated on her)
pimps have no respect for women and should start acting like gentel man instead of backstabbing,perverted,pieces of crap

[hardly]

Another word for pimp is slave trader. Pimps abuse and manipulate women to have sex with strangers and then take their money. Pimps are the lowest form of life on the planet.

Pimps suck.

[Alyshia R.]

Hey!!!

I am a pimp, and I want to tell all of America that there is nothing that is better than being a pimp. I am a lady pimp, and ba-da-da-da-da I'm loving it. I wanna give a shout out to my friend Hailey, in e-town...PEACE OUT...