frimping

frimping
 n.— «But the fact of the matter is that they were transmitting information about their customers to Facebook in hopes of earning more dollars via this new thing called frimping, i.e. pimping stuff to your friends.» —“Hey Coke, Don’t Just Blame Facebook” by Om Malik GigaOM Dec. 3, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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