The pimpish name could have been a hammerstroke to end a story.

I felt very pimpish standing under the streetlight with a dead cigar for a prop.

He was scary in a pimpish way.

The pimpish son, will, to be sure, every night elicit a groan from those in the audience who know him, when he remarks that he doesn't have to work because his wife does.

Cooke was a chocolate teen idol when he crooned "You Send Me," but he could prowl through tough, pimpish rhythm-and-blues material too, then head for the high ground of gospel quartet singing with its churchgoing sincerity and supple melancholy.