(n.) One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.
(v. i.) To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(2) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
(3) Pimps and clients are rarely punished and when prosecutors do manage to build a case against them, survivors often change their testimonies and the cases are thrown out, says Francisco Carlos Pereira de Andrade, a criminal prosecutor who specialises in child exploitation.
(4) Del Seymour knows all about the pimps, drug dealers and vagrants of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district – because he used to be one of them.
(5) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
(6) Somewhere in here is a story that Refn can hardly be bothered to tell: the psychotic brother of Bangkok-dwelling American Julian (Ryan Gosling) murders a girl, is murdered for it in his turn by the girl's father, who is acting reluctantly under the aegis of a karaoke-loving samurai-cop (Vithaya Pansringarm), an angel of vengeance figure who then subtracts arm number one from the father as punishment for pimping out his late daughter.
(7) The commission looked at abuse and coercion in the industry and found that, contrary to the opinion of Schaffauser and others, criminalising buyers does not lead women to pimps.
(8) Instead of "that prostitute was out all night selling her body", think: "My neighbor (insert name here) was forced by her pimp to stand out in the cold all night and have sex with multiple men she didn't know."
(9) All of life came in – vagrants, prostitutes, pimps, addicts, young people having a laugh, people who'd had too much to drink, police officers finishing shifts, nurses starting shifts, plus the person like my dad who was about to treat his family to a bucket.
(10) The cops arrested him one evening shortly after De Blasio’s speech, on old trespass and marijuana charges, and quizzed him about his relationship with the performers (“Was he their pimp?
(11) While the shop assistants are aware they're playing the role of knicker pimp, of jolly hostess, I wonder if the male customers are aware of their own role, a role learned from the 1970s: flustered man in lingerie department.
(12) Karen wanted to pimp everybody out,” she told the court.
(13) You may think looking at a 17-year-old's Ferrari (" This is how the pimps roll ") might be an exercise in impoverished masochism, but the lack of self-awareness makes the whole experience strangely gratifying.
(14) Pimps, who in some red-light districts will take up to 70% of what a sex worker is paid, were beginning to force women to work for credit, she added.
(15) After Obama's re-election, Nugent said on Twitter: "Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America."
(16) Kanelli characterised Golden Dawn as an "ideological and political pimp" serving "a mission that the system assigned to it".
(17) In the process he presents unimaginable people – as in Fata Morgana 's (1970) desert characters: the piano-playing madam and drum-playing begoggled pimp playing cabaret music in the Lanzarote brothel; the shellshocked Foreign Legion deserter clinging to a ragged letter from his mother; the lizard-loving German.
(18) A comic called Gerry K tells a joke about watching a pimp fighting with two prostitutes.
(19) You can pimp your kit to match your mobile phone or match your e-liquid to your mood: Golden Virginia flavour for a country pub, mojito for a bender.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-winning album To Pimp a Butterfly broke down barriers around depression, say experts.
Playa
Definition:
(n.) A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doubles from €60 B&B Hotel Las Palmas, Carboneras Playa de los Muertos.
(2) Playa Caleta, the main city beach, swings around the bay, a block in front, though modern high-rises cause you to play hide and seek with sea views.
(3) • Doubles from $113 B&B, no phone, ventanasalmarcozumel.com Fusion, Playa del Carmen Facebook Twitter Pinterest Years ago, most of Playa’s hippie beach bars and hostels converted to slicker, louder operations.
(4) Protein variation in 182 Sylvilagus floridanus from 19 playa basins in Castro Co., Texas was examined using starch-gel electrophoresis.
(5) The prospect of retiring to the sunny hills of Provence or the playas of Spain is less attractive since the EU referendum, with older voters concerned their healthcare would no longer be covered post-Brexit, a survey has found.
(6) Named for the whiskered nurse sharks ( gatas ) that once were common in these waters, Playa Las Gatas offers white sand, and spectacular snorkelling.
(7) • Paseo Marítimo Pedregal 17, Playa Pedregal, +34 952 29 15 95, restauranteelcabra.es Bodega Bar El Pimpi El Pimpi is a Málaga institution.
(8) For the less ambitious, there is the spectacular playa Los Muertos , well worth the pleasant 1km amble down a track off the Agua Amarga-Carboneras road.
(9) Two species of hematozoa, Haemoproteus columbae and H. sacharovi, were observed on thin blood smears from populations of mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) in the Rolling Plains (RP, a semiarid dryland farming and grazing area) and Southern High Plains (SHP, an intensively cultivated and irrigated agricultural region with playa lakes) of western Texas (USA).
(10) Here’s Los Parientes de Playa Vicente with La Lloroncita.
(11) Photograph: Lois Pryce I love Bertha’s Café on Playa el Burro .
(12) Visit the Musa underwater sculpture , swim alongside whale sharks or dolphins or simply chill on one of the island’s northern or western beaches, such as wonderful Playa Norte.
(13) Keen123 Playa Las Gatas: a watery Jesus Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Playa Las Gatas, three miles south of the Zihuatanejo on the Pacific coast, is accessible only by boat or a treacherous pathway, so getting there always seems like an adventure.
(14) • Dive centres include: isub, San Jose, isubsanjose.com (all year); Buceo Las Negras, buceolasnegras.com (all year); Clear Kayak, Playa San José, clearkayak.es (July-September) WHERE TO EAT Casa Puga, Almería Facebook Twitter Pinterest Casa Puga restaurant.
(15) Twenty larval tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum) were collected from a playa lake in West Texas and maintained in the laboratory for 7 days prior to the beginning of position training.
(16) He wrote “Playa Escondida” (hidden beach) on a piece of paper and I thought: “I’ve got to go!” I carried that bit of paper with me for ages.
(17) The playlist Facebook Twitter Pinterest A-list playlist for songs from or about Mexico and Central America Willie Nelson and Carlos Santana – They All Went to Mexico Molotov – Frijolero The Four Tops – Loco in Acapulco Los de Abajo – El Loco Chavela Vargas – Vámonos Los Parientes de Playa Vicente – La Lloroncita The Garifuna Collective – Mongulu Café Guancasco – Informe Estadístico de Comienzos de Siglo Peter, Paul and Mary – El Salvador Insane – El Salvador Carlos Mejía Godoy – Nicaragua, Nicaragüita Rubén Blades – Pedro Navaja
(18) A 10-minute drive away is the dramatic, naturist beach Playa de los Muertos.
(19) Hacienda Eden, Playa Troncones, Guerrero The name is not an idle boast: commanding a spot in the middle of gorgeous Manzanillo Bay, 22 miles north of Zihuatanejo, Hacienda Eden’s 10 rooms and four bungalows fill primarily with repeat guests.
(20) Nei's genetic distance between populations ranged from 0.20 to 0.388 and a significant association between genetic distance and linear geographic distance among playas was found.