pimpin'

[Scot LaFaive]

As a hip white boy from rural Wisconsin, I've never heard this.

Scot LaFaive


>From: "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: pimpin'
>Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:47:44 -0400
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>Poster:       "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
>Subject:      pimpin'
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>One reported detail of the gruesome murder scenario in Atlanta yesterday
>involved the suspect's words to a bystander/witness:
>
> >The suspect warned Williams, "Get out my way, pimpin'."
>
>My trash talk students informed me this morning that "pimpin'" was being
>used in the sense of "dude" and that this use is commonplace - and is
>neutral to positive in connotation. Jon, do you have this? Does this match
>others' observations?
>
>Bethany
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