The difference between Pimp and Promote
When used as verbs, pimp means to act as a procurer of prostitutes, whereas promote means to raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
Pimp is also noun with the meaning: someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes.
Pimp is also numeral with the meaning: five in cumbrian and welsh sheep counting.
Pimp is also adjective with the meaning: excellent, fashionable, stylish.
check bellow for the other definitions of Pimp and Promote
-
Pimp as a noun:
Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
-
Pimp as a noun (African American Vernacular English, _, slang):
A man who can easily attract women.
-
Pimp as a verb (intransitive):
To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
-
Pimp as a verb (transitive):
To prostitute someone.
Examples:
"The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone."
-
Pimp as a verb (transitive, US, African American Vernacular English):
To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also ).
Examples:
"You pimped out that AC f'real, dawg."
-
Pimp as a verb (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).
-
Pimp as a verb (transitive, US, slang):
To promote, to tout.
Examples:
"I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers."
-
Pimp as a verb (US, slang):
To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
Examples:
"I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas."
-
Pimp as an adjective (slang):
excellent, fashionable, stylish
-
Promote as a verb (transitive):
To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
Examples:
"He promoted his clerk to office manager."
-
Promote as a verb (transitive):
To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
Examples:
"They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time."
"They promoted the new film with giant billboards."
-
Promote as a verb (transitive):
To encourage, urge or incite.
-
Promote as a verb (sports, usually in passive form):
To elevate to the above league.
Examples:
"At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League."
-
Promote as a verb (transitive, chemistry):
To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
-
Promote as a verb (transitive, chess):
To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
Examples:
"Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen."
-
Promote as a verb (intransitive, Singapore):
To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
Examples:
"At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS."