Pimp vs Ho - What's the difference?
pimp | ho |
A man who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer.
A man who can easily attract women.
To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
To prostitute someone.
(transitive, US, African American Vernacular English) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also (pimp out)).
(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).
* 2004 , Robert A. Blume, Arthur W. Combs, The Continuing American Revolution: A Psychological Perspective , page 183
(transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout.
(slang) To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
(slang) excellent, fashionable, stylish
five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting
(nautical) Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
:: Another boat is visible!
:: Land is visible!
:: A town is visible!
halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach
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A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
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(slang, pejorative) A whore; a sexually loose woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
As nouns the difference between pimp and ho
is that pimp is a man who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer while ho is a stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.As a verb pimp
is to act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.As an adjective pimp
is excellent, fashionable, stylish.As a numeral pimp
is five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.As an interjection ho is
used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.As a proper noun Ho is
a Munda language spoken in India and Bangladesh.As an initialism HO is
Heckscher-Ohlin theorem, in economics.pimp
English
Etymology 1
Origin unknown. Perhaps from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* pimpdom * pimphood * pimpness * pimpship * pimp slap, pimp-slapVerb
(en verb)- The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
- You pimped out that AC (air conditioner) f'real (for real), dawg.
- Only an attending physician can pimp' a chief resident; the chief resident and attending can '''pimp''' a junior resident; they all three can ' pimp an intern.
- I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
- I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas.
Synonyms
* pitch, promote, tout, spruikDerived terms
* pimp off * pimp out * pimp upAdjective
(head)See also
* pimping * player * playahSee also
* madamExternal links
*Double-Tongued Dictionary definition
Etymology 2
(Yan Tan Tethera) From (etyl) numerals. Cognate with Welsh pumpNumeral
(head)See also
*References
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* English cardinal numbersho
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ho, .Interjection
(en interjection)- Sail ho !
- Land ho !
- Man ho !
- What noise there, ho ?
- Ho ! who's within?
- Ho ! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.
Noun
- There is no ho with them.
References
* 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988Etymology 2
An eye dialect corruption of whore , from non-rhotic pronunciations considered typical of African American Vernacular English. Compare .Noun
(en-noun)- Bros before hos !