pimp-slap

verb

To slap powerfully in the face; to deliver a pimp slap to.

“For additional quotations, see pimp slap.”

Meanings

nounpimp-slap (plural pimp-slaps)

plural pimp-slaps · alternative pimp slap

  1. alternativeAlternative form of pimp slap.

    2002, Jai Anthony-Lewis Husband, Behold..., iUniverse, →ISBN, page 118, “ […] I spent hours preparing and I still got slammed—” ¶ “Yeah, it was like an opened-handed pimp-slap!”

    3 more examples

    1998, Ron Nixon, "Farrakhan, the Hip-Hop Generation, and the Failure of Black American Leadership", in Amy Alexander (ed.), The Farrakhan Factor: African-American Writers on Leadership, Nationhood, and Minister Louis Farrakhan, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 190, Although Jesse Jackson and several other Civil Rights Era leaders criticized Clinton for the remarks, they nevertheless endorsed him for president. Many politically-aware young black people saw that as a pimp-slap in the face.

    1999, Dan Kelly, "Birchismo", in The Baffler 13, reprinted in Thomas Frank and David Mulcahey (eds.), Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy, W. W. Norton & Company (2003), →ISBN, page 356, […] a generation for whom the landmark events of Sixties were an unpleasant series of pimp-slaps.

    2004, Rita Rashad, Love At Half-court: It May Be The Same Game, But It’s No Ordinary Love!, iUniverse, →ISBN, pages 27–28, Then the next thing I knew, my Mom whipped around and gave Kellie one of those backhanded pimp-slaps across the face.

verbpimp-slap (third-person singular simple present pimp-slaps, present participle pimp-slapping, simple past and past participle pimp-slapped)

present singular third person pimp-slaps · participle present pimp-slapping · participle past pimp-slapped · past pimp-slapped · alternative pimp slap

  1. slangtransitivevulgarTo slap powerfully in the face; to deliver a pimp slap to.

    For additional quotations, see pimp slap.

    4 more examples

    1994, Jervey Tervalon, Understand This, Morrow, →ISBN, page 71, Come over here like you think you gonna pimp-slap me because you driving your brother’s Benz.

    1997, Belle Waring, "Eleventh Day of Rain", in Dark Blonde Poems, Sarabande Books, →ISBN, page 58, This is the eleventh day of rain in a row / when the wind off the river pimp-slaps us university whores / heading to class.

    2004 December 29, Neil Prakash, "9 November(D+1): Fire for Effect", in Matthew Currier Burden, The Blog of War: front-line dispatches from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, Simon and Schuster (2006), →ISBN, page 182, When that round hit the building, it looked like God himself came down and pimp-slapped him off the building. He just flew sideways like he was catapulted into orbit.

    2006, O.G. Wise, Queen Bee, Cook City Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 142, Renny got up and pimp-slapped the taste outta his mouth!

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APA

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