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pimps

  • plural
    of pimp.
    pimp
    noun
    a person, especially a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings; panderer; procurer.
  • present tense form
    of pimp (3rd person singular).
    pimp
    noun
    a person, especially a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings; panderer; procurer.

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But the idea of curtailing even a weak tool to hold johns and pimps accountable is infuriating to critics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2022

Grosso has rejected the notion that the bill, which does not alter the District’s sex-trafficking laws, would legalize pimps or any kind of coercion.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2019

“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

He has kicked out of his center pimps who tried to recruit the women, but he said the local police cared only about potential radicals.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2017

Tom became increasingly adept at dealing with what he called “rascality”: cow rustlers, horse thieves, scalawags, pimps, rumrunners, stagecoach robbers, desperadoes, and other human transgressors.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann