pimp vs tout

pimp

verb
  • To promote, to tout. 

  • To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. 

  • To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle (also pimp out). 

  • To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff). 

  • To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit. 

  • To prostitute someone. 

noun
  • A man who can easily attract women. 

  • Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander. 

adj
  • excellent, fashionable, stylish 

num
  • Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting. 

tout

verb
  • To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote. 

  • To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes. 

  • To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse. 

  • To look for, try to obtain; used with for. 

  • To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.). 

  • To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings. 

noun
  • Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way. 

  • A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win. 

  • In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks. 

  • An informer in the Irish Republican Army. 

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