PIMPING Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

pimping 1 of 2

adjective

ˈpim-pən

Definition of pimping

as in nominal

so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention got paid only a pimping amount of money as a reporter for a small newspaper

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pimping

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verb

present participle of pimp

as in abusing

to take unfair advantage of a movie actress who pimped everybody she ever met as she clawed her way to the top

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Recent Examples of pimping

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Norfleet, 26, was initially charged with pimping after bringing a 20-year-old woman to a hotel on the 1700 block of Embarcadero in Oakland. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2026 The three were charged with crimes including pimping and pandering, money laundering, and tax and payroll fraud, the district attorney’s office said. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 The Wangs, along with an employee identified as 42-year-old Sunnyvale resident Rui Wang, face mulitple felony charges, including pimping and pandering, money laundering, and tax and payroll fraud. — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026 The Bronx gunman wanted for killing an ex-con who had served time for pimping out girls returned to the crime scene two days later and was busted, police said Wednesday. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026 Lake recalled Manson allegedly pimping her and the other women and girls in his cult to other adult men and brutally sodomizing her. — Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026 Dennis, 32, was sentenced to six years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for the pimping charge, court records show. — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 4 June 2026 Even outside of traditional television, the reality TV model has made millionaires of even more toxic matriarchs such as Ruby Framke, who amassed over 2 million YouTube subscribers by pimping out her children for clicks while criminally abusing them in secret. — Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pimping

Adjective

If interest expense exceeds nominal GDP growth, a debt spiral could occur.

— Justin Zacks, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
Municipal compost operations tend only to accept leaves generated by that town and may also provide small quantities of finished compost to residents for free or at a nominal charge, according to DEEP.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of nominal

Verb

In an earlier episode, Pam confronts Grace’s mother about abusing her daughter and ends up bashing in the woman’s head with a meat tenderizer — which sounds like a pivotal moment but plays more like a side quest.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
The former owner of several unlicensed North Texas boarding homes pleaded guilty Monday to financially abusing and fatally neglecting elderly and disabled people in her care, according to court filings.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of abusing

Adjective

And while there are slight deviations between Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennial shopping habits, Gen Z appears to be changing the game altogether.

— Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 28 Oct. 2026
Made from 98-percent cotton and 2-percent spandex, these pants have a slight stretch to them along with functional front and back pockets.

— Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of slight

Verb

Three once high-flying brothers convicted of exploiting their wealth and access to luxury real estate to drug and rape dozens of women were sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
The Hugging Face hack reverberated across the industry because OpenAI’s models took actions that went against what they were supposed to do, including accessing the internet and exploiting vulnerabilities.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of exploiting

Adjective

The other was Albrecht Hohler, thirty, a Communist member of the paramilitary group the Red Front Fighters and well known locally as a particularly vicious thug—a petty criminal who had been released from jail only a few months earlier.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
Here, the book loosens its grip on its wholesome view of the Westish clique, letting its characters do several ugly and petty and longed-for things—letting them, in other words, grow up.

— Emma Alpern, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of petty

Verb

All three said West Point appears to be circumventing the judge's ruling by using a different justification to continue to enforce its speech rules.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
How people are using agents Several themes are emerging from people testing agents in their personal and professional lives.

— Marty Swant, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of using

Adjective

Then, the pandemic reduced the schedule to 60 games and Eddie got a piddling 37%.

— Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
Millions of additional claims are expected to stream in from around the country over the coming weeks, while hiring remains piddling.

— Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020

Definition of piddling

Verb

This gave the team control over the motor’s movement without physically manipulating it.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
The 18-year-old is suspected of manipulating an Indiana teen over a social platform into harming herself and taking her own life, according to prosecutors in Germany.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

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