Guido x 2

[Victor Steinbok]

I am sure there examples in ADS-L archives, but I could not think of a
cross-over example (like "pimp my car"--but that one is too ubiquitous),
but found one in UD. Specifically, it's Pimp[43]:

http://bit.ly/bqwkYm
> To make ones CV absolutely fabulous in a manner that any employer will
> read and immediately feel joy and love for the CV writer
> /I'm going to have to pimp my CV due to the calibre of the other
> applicants./

It should be plain that the meaning is not restricted to CV, but it does
mean both "to beautify/make hip" and "to sell/pander".

Another poster on UD used the phrase "get his pimp on" to imply turning
on the charm.

     VS-)


On 1/27/2010 2:12 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> ...To me, this seems to be more closely related to "pimp" as "pander"
> (but a verb, not a noun--an absense I do find surprising in even in
> the Compact OED), although it is possible, ironically, that the
> conversion went through an intermediate step of being related to
> "pimping" as beautification--the meaning that became popular in the
> late 1990s. I find it interesting that this is the "pimp" in the more
> benign sense, more closely allied with the OED original
> definition--there is no negative connotation to this use of "pimp",
> except for the fact that frequent pimping posts may annoy other users.
>
> VS-)
>

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