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Is pimp a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word pimp is a Scrabble US word. The word pimp is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

P3I1M3P3

Is pimp a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word pimp is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

P3I1M3P3

Is pimp a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word pimp is a Words With Friends word. The word pimp is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

P4I1M4P4

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4-letter words (1 found)

PIMP,

3-letter words (2 found)

IMP,PIP,

2-letter words (2 found)

MI,PI,

You can make 5 words from pimp according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of pimp

pimp ipmp pmip mpip impp mipp pipm ippm ppim ppim ippm pipm pmpi mppi ppmi ppmi mppi pmpi impp mipp ipmp pimp mpip pmip

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word pimp. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in pimp.

Definitions and meaning of pimp

pimp

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɪmp/
  • Rhymes: -ɪmp

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

pimp (plural pimps)

  1. Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
  2. (African-American Vernacular, slang) A man who can easily attract women.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

pimp (third-person singular simple present pimps, present participle pimping, simple past and past participle pimped)

  1. (intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  2. (transitive) To prostitute someone.
  3. (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle (also pimp out).
  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).
  5. (transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.
  6. (US, slang) To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
Synonyms
  • (prostitute someone): hustle, whore out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out
  • (promote, tout): pitch, promote, tout, spruik
Derived terms
Translations

Adjective

pimp

  1. (slang) excellent, fashionable, stylish

See also

  • pimping (adjective)
  • player
  • playa
  • madam

Further reading

  • Double-Tongued Dictionary definition

Etymology 2

From Brythonic numerals, from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp.

Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of five, cinque, punch, and Pompeii.

Numeral

pimp

  2. (Cumbria and Old Welsh) Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.
See also
  • (Borrowdale sheep counting) yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick, yan-a-dick, tyan-a-dick, tethera-a-dick, methera-a-dick, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tyan-a-bumfit, tethera-a-bumfit, methera-bumfit, giggot

References

  • Wright, Peter (1995) Cumbrian Chat, Dalesman Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 7
  • Deakin, Michael A.B. (2007) Leigh-Lancaster, David, editor, The Name of the Number‎[1], Australian Council for Educational Research, →ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, page 75
  • Varvogli, Aliki (2002) Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide‎[2], Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, pages 24-25

Anagrams

  • impp.

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