Pimp

One who provides for others the means of gratifying lust; a procurer; a panderer. The word pimp is not a technical one, nor has it acquired any peculiar or appropriate meaning in the law; and is therefore to be construed and understood according to the common and approved usage of the language; People v. Gastro, 75 Mich. 127, 42 N. W. 937, where the court disapproved the action of the judge at nisi prlus who defined the term to mean a man who has inter- The Indiana statutes provide: “Whoever,! being a male person, frequents houses of illfame or of assignation, or associates with females known or reputed as prostitutes, or frequents gambling-houses with prostitutes, or is engaged in or about a house of prostitution, is a pimp.”

R. S. (1881) § 2002.

See Fahnestock v. State, 102 Ind. 156, 1 N. E. 372, which was an indictment for being a pimp under that statute.