What's the difference between pimp and player?

Pimp


Definition:

  • (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.

Player


Definition:

  • (n.) One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
  • (n.) One who plays any game.
  • (n.) A dramatic actor.
  • (n.) One who plays on an instrument of music.
  • (n.) A gamester; a gambler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (2) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (4) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (5) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
  • (6) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
  • (7) Of course they should play if the players still want to.
  • (8) The others were two Britons, Mark Cox and John Barrett (now both BBC commentators) and the US player Jim McManus.
  • (9) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
  • (10) Huth, a Stoke player for more than five years, has made only one Premier League appearance since suffering a knee injury in November 2013.
  • (11) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
  • (12) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
  • (13) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
  • (14) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
  • (15) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
  • (16) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (17) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
  • (18) "I have to say that I have been a Chelsea player since 2004 and I have never had six minutes in my favour when I was losing.
  • (19) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
  • (20) It’s not just that Lester was one of the first signs that the Red Sox’s commitment to players from their own system was starting to pay off.