Momager vs Pimp - What's the difference?
momager | pimp |
A manager who is also one's mother.
*2010 , Andrea O'Reilly, Encyclopedia of Motherhood :
*2012 , Sarah Wylie, All These Lives , page 184:
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
As nouns the difference between momager and pimp
is that momager is a manager who is also one's mother while pimp is a man who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer.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.momager
English
Noun
(en noun)- A growing category of “bad” mother is the so-called “momager ,” the woman who interferes with her famous children's affairs, exploits them, and contributes to their tarnished reputations—[...]
- The most fitting occupation for my mother is no longer a stage actress or momager or anything like that; she would make—she is—a fantastic nurse.
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