(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.
Spruik
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He had committed to attend the show – and was likely to spruik the agriculture white paper – having said as recently as Sunday morning that he would be there.
(2) To do good medical research you need good chemistry and good physics and good biology and good genetics … it doesn’t make sense to separate one thing out.” Abbott and Dutton were again spruiking the new fund on Monday, but few leading scientists entirely agree with the strategy.
(3) It’s a far cry from the usual desperate pleas for attendance from those emotionally and physically ragged students who march up and down the street spruiking petitions and street press rags.
(4) My only financial benefit was the remuneration I was receiving at KPMG.” Conroy said: “That is actually the definition of conflict of interest … receiving money from the people you're now going to spruik for.” Fitzgerald responded: “I'm not spruiking for anybody.” Infrastructure Australia provides advice to the government on infrastructure priorities but it is up to the government to decide whether and where to allocate funding.
(5) Her income is higher than it was before and she can afford someone to come in for four hours a day to help out, but it is nothing like the paid holiday that advocates of do-what-you-love independence spruik.
(6) But Shorten does have the advantage of entering the election fight knowing what he’s selling and why, and not having to spruik a bunch of policies everyone knows he doesn’t believe in.
(7) MinMetals spruiked Robert’s visit on its website by saying the then assistant defence minister was speaking “on behalf of the Australian Department of Defence”.
(8) (Christensen and Bernardi say it has resurfaced now because “more information has come to light” which is a neatly circular argument since it is them and their fellow conservative objectors who have been spruiking the new “information”.)
(9) That would be the kind of supporters who are willing to fundraise, doorknock, spruik on social media and take the personal time to convince their friends, relatives and neighbours that Labor have a political vision worth voting for.
(10) After all the venom spruiked about debt, deficit and the so-called “budget emergency”, Joe Hockey and Andrew Robb produced a four-year budget which was only $6bn different from Labor’s.
(11) Fitzgerald replied: "I'm not spruiking for anybody."
(12) This explains why the bulk of the billions of dollars extra the former Labor government was spruiking was due to arrive beyond the four-year budget cycle – and why the Coalition never committed to match funding beyond the first four years.
(13) He said at the time his vote “was not a vote for deregulation” but “to continue discussion”, but as the government embarked on an $8m advertising campaign to spruik the defeated package and a new round of lobbying to secure its passage this year, it was widely assumed it would secure Muir’s support.
(14) During question time on Tuesday, Abbott evaded questions on the cabinet leaks, instead spruiking the government’s credentials on national security.
(15) Conroy said: "That is actually the definition of conflict of interest … receiving money from the people you're now going to spruik for."
(16) Crossbench seek sweeteners for supporting revised family benefit cuts Read more While the childcare changes are not scheduled to start until 2017, they would be harder to spruik in the 2016 election year if the government had failed to secure its self-identified funding stream.