pimps
Prostitution ring operators
Pimps is the plural of pimp—a person who manages prostitutes and takes a cut of their earnings.
The word carries connotations of exploitation and control: Pimps often use manipulation or violence to keep sex workers dependent.
As a verb, to pimp means to act as a pimp, or more broadly to promote aggressively or customize flashily: He pimped his ride with chrome rims.
Commercial sexual services
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- brothelCommercial sex establishment
- solicitationSeeking to obtain
vice · streetwalker · hustler · coercion · underworld · illegal · organized crime · arrest
Seventies Black action cinema
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
- film noirStylish, shadowy crime drama
- HBOPremium cable network
- The WireCovert listening device
hustle · flamboyant · fur coat · fedora · cane · gold teeth · superfly · exploitation films
Improved replacement versions
- customizesModifies to individual specifications
- embellishesAdds decorative elements
- decoratesAdds visual appeal to
- flashyShowy, often tastelessly so
bling · modifications · tricked out · enhances · souped up · rims · chrome · neon
prostitution
Commercial sexual services
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- brothelCommercial sex establishment
solicitation · vice · streetwalker · hustler · coercion · underworld · illegal · organized crime · arrest · conviction
blaxploitation
Seventies Black action cinema
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
- film noirStylish, shadowy crime drama
- HBOPremium cable network
The Wire · hustle · flamboyant · fur coat · fedora · cane · gold teeth · superfly · exploitation films · documentary
upgrades
Improved replacement versions
- customizesModifies to individual specifications
- embellishesAdds decorative elements
- decoratesAdds visual appeal to
flashy · bling · modifications · tricked out · enhances · souped up · rims · chrome · neon · accessories
- human traffickinghuman trafficking, trafficking, traffickers, trafficking victims, victims
- BlaxploitationFoxy Brown, Pam Grier, Slaughter, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield
pimpsprostitutes
Those who sell sex
sex workers · hookers · escorts · call girls · streetwalkers
pimpsrescuers
Those who save endangered people
social workers · victim advocates · abolitionists · protectors · reformers
- pimp outCustomize flamboyantly
- pimped outLavishly and showily modified
- pimped upMade flashily extravagant
- pimping outAdding flashy customizations
- pimp slapDemeaning open-handed blow
- pimp upEmbellish showily