pimp
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My brother and I just bought my car, and we’re like, “How can we pimp it out? We’re gonna get this wrap, we’re gonna get an underglow for it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
The Plummer brothers - Tremaine, Tristan and Twaine - opted for a mix of cravats and dicky bows to pimp up their navy blue suits.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2022
A former officer who matched her description of Smith’s partner had died years earlier, as did her pimp.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
It’s why it seems appropriate that he just might be the first major leaguer to pimp his takes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 29, 2020
No, turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but poet.
From Love for Love: a Comedy by William Congreve
Krell is a prosecutor who has specialized in human trafficking and put her share of pimps behind bars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Listening to musicians, lovers, pimps, childhood friends and FBI agents recounting their time with Holiday is an evocative and transportive experience.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 6, 2020
“Anyone who pimps himself out to the M.E.K. fails the litmus test for integrity,” he said.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
It’s male detectives, male mob heavies, male pimps and even a couple of men trying to open a bigger, fancier gay bar in the Village.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2018
Blacktown crawled with white people, with pimps, prostitutes, bootleggers, with hustlers of all kinds, with colorful characters, and with police and prohibition agents.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
It could have been a scene from earlier wars, except it was pimped by technology.
From BBC ● May 16, 2022
His work car, which my brothers and I loved to sneak inside, had tinted windows and was pimped, as we said at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2021
Other looks in the collection included shearling-style jackets and oversized trousers with a chevron pattern, while some styles were pimped up with sequins, including a pair of baggy jeans.
From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2021
Williams, another avid tailgater who hosts his own group, purchased a bus he calls “the Diesel” — pimped out with TVs inside to watch other NFL games and places to sit.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2017
Terrell gets dropped off by his brother Mike, who’s driving a pimped BMW with chromed-out rims and tinted windows.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
For instance, Tate denies that he was pimping anyone and Carlson signs off on this view by scoffing, "How do you force someone to make TikTok videos?"
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2023
“I wasn’t pimping my home run,” Donaldson said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
"I don't mind people pimping strikeouts and pimping stuff on the field. I've never been a player like that, but I don't mind it; I love it," Smith said, via ESPN.
From Fox News ● May 1, 2021
It needs to be part of a broader cultural transformation in policing that goes beyond "pimping the programme for publicity", he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2020
“We have a really pimping house,” he informs me.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
